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The New Govern ment 



Constitution and Departmental Workings 

Showing 
The Formation of a Perfect Organization to carry 
forward and perpetuate practical and uni- 
VERSAL Co-operation on a Scientific 
AND Natural Basis. 

Also 

Government Halls of Education and Culture 

Showing 
Their Nature, Object ad Scope of Work. 

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^^ yyo I Together With 

The Story of The New Government. 

A Narration of 
Its Organization, Growth, Progress and Results. 



By ^,, n^ 

FRANCIS KING . /'^ ' '^ 



896" AUG22l«Q' 



Mailed to any address on receipt of price 

Address NEW GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING HOUSE 

San Francisco, Cal. 



Copyrighted 1896 

BY 
FRANCIS KING 



Contents. 



PREFACE 7 

INTRODUCTION 9 

BOOK I. PART FIRST. 

CHAPTER I. 

BASIC PRINCIPLES AND FUNDAMENTAL LAWS 13 

CHAPTER 11. 
CONSTITUTION 14 

CHAPTER 111. 
FUNCTIONS OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT 20 

CHAPTER IV. 
THE HDUSE OK BUSINESS 20 

CHAPTER V. 
THE DEPARTMENTS OF BUSINESS 22 

PART SECOND. 

CHAPTER 1. 
FIRST HALL OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE 41 

CHAPTER II. 
THE (general DEPARTMENTS 42 

CHAPTER III. 

THE DEPARTMENTS DESCRIBED 43 

MEMBERSHIP AND PRINCIPLES 50 

BOOK II. 

INTRODUCTION 54 

CHAPTER 1. 
THE CONCEPTION OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT 55 

CHAPTER 11. 
PUBLICATION OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT 67 



Contents Continued 



CHAPTER III. 

FIRST HALL OF EI)UCAT[ON AND CULTURE 72 

CHAPTER IV. 

ORGANIZATION OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT 79 

CHAPTER V. 
SICCOND HOUSE OF BUSINESS : 85 

CHAPTER VI. 
THE THREEFOLD VISION OF KING KOLLIS 92 

CHAPTER VII. 
MUNICIPAL NEW GOVERNMKNT 109 

CHAPTER VIII. 

THE STATE NEW GOVERNMENT 119 

CHAPTER IX. 

THE NATIONAL NEW GOVERNMENT 124 

CHAPTER X. 

PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS 135 

CHAPTER XI. 
KLECTION METHODS 146 

CHAPTER XII. 
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE ; 151 

CHAPTER XIII. 
CHANGES AND PROGRESS... 158 

CHAPTER XIV. 
THE WRITTEN STORY 163 

CHAPTER XV. 
THE EVENING AND MORNING OF LIFE 164 



PREFACE. 



TO THE PUBLIC: To Ijotter the conditions of mankind 
many plans have been formed and schemes projected, some of 
which have met with measurable success, others with failure. 
V7e :iave not a word to say about })ast or present institutions. 
Their character is written in their history; their virtues are in- 
cor])orated in "The Xew Government," and their fallacies no- 
ticeable by their absence. The clear-headed thinker will ob- 
serve the natural order of the beginning, growth, adjustment 
and ada])tability of the system to the varied phases of social, in- 
dustrial, financial, civil, ])olitical, religious, moral and s])iritual 
life. It is needless to say we have discovered notbing new. 
''Tlie New Government" is sim})ly the end)odiment, in one com- 
]ilete system all that science by human ])rogress has discovered 
for the good of mankind. Many details of the system are not 
herein mentioned, being unnecessary. Questions pertaining to 
commerce, law, money, etc., are not dealt with, as these matters 
will be adjusted at the pro])er time and in the ])roper manner 
when the '^'Government" is once in operation and progress. 
^lany conditions which at ])resent seem as impassable obstacles, 
resolve themselves into simple factors in the growth of the work. 
'I'he system is not visionary. Every part of it is at present in 
operation in human affairs. Six years ago it presented itself, 
since which time we have been in ju'eparation for its establish- 
ment. The time is ri])e for its introduction. The masses are 
hungering and clamoring for relief. The present distressful 
conditions are fast becoming unbearable. We offer the solution 
of the ])roblem. 

In "The New Government," the time, talents and leisure of 
old and young are fully employed and enjoyed. A work for 
each one and each one in his natural and proper sphere. Pn- 
limited reward and stinirdus for natural ability and true ambi- 
tion. 



In "The New Government" no one can be a pauper nor yet 
become excessively wealthy. 

There is no competitive system to worry the brain nor we.ir 
Dut the vitals. 

Generous salaries as remuneration for service and efforts ac- 
cording to skill and merit. 

The natural resources of water and earth and elements, de- 
veloped and ntilized. 

The natnral resources of soul, brain and body cultivated and 
employed for the benefit of all. 

The son and daughter of the poor man now: — then no longer 
poor, have equal facilities for education and culture witli tbe 
now, and still rich man. The rich man need not fear tlie system 
for he will continue to have plenty. 

The poor man may welcome it with joy, for he too ccn Ije- 
come rich. 

,''The New Government" does not compel one to do this or 
that; or even require his citizenship. He may or be may noi, 
c.s he i:>]op.srs. lie inr;y follow his business, keep his profits, 
amass wealth, compete with "The New (government," if be ^an. 

Perfect Freedom of will to all. 

"The New Government" interferes with no institution. 11 
attends most strictly to its own business, but slowly and .<nrely 
; s the earth turns around, and ps the r^uicksfind c! >. nlf- i'- \';. 
tim, just so surely will it undermine every ])resent existing 
form of institution and swallow them up completely and fore\n v. 

Let us waste no more time in idle words and vain s]iecu!alio;i 
and theorizing. 

We all know the present conditions. He who thinks, knows 
there is but one solution of the social problem; but one lioyte ;>i' 
deliverance, viz; Rational co-operation by perfect organization, 
based on natural law and proceeding in natural order, Tli's 
can be accomplished only by the most approved system of r'l- >' 
ernment. The time has come for . action. Let us ])ri)eoel to 
business. We know the thing ought to be done; must be done. 
Let us do it — do it at once by the surest and most a]~»proved ])l?!n. 
Yours Trulv' FEANCTS KING. 



Introduction. 

PLAN OF THE WORK. 

The S3\stein is presented as briefly as possible tliat tlie reader 
mav get a comprehensiA^e view of it in the shortest space of time. 

PEINCIPLES. 

We introduce tlie basic ))rinciples. Love, Justice and K(|uaiiTy 
of Knights whicli must moukl tlie constitution and dctcrnniu' 
law and action in all the operations of the institution. 

FUNDAMENTAL LAWS. 

The fundamental laws are based u])on the princi])les uamcd 
and furnish the groundwork for all future legislation and busi- 
ness o])erations to meet the complex situatiou of what will be iu 
liic (uid ;i gigautic organization. 

THE CONSTITFTIOX. 

The Constitution as embodied here would doubtless re(|uir(> 
many additions, alterations and uu^difications, the intent being 
to give a general idea of such rules and principles necessarily 
eiubraced in a constitution of snch a system of goveruuieid. 

DEPAPTMEXTAL WOPKINOS. 

We have outlined the general departments of the system, 
giving but a suggestive view of the sco])e and magnitude of eacli 
(ie])artment, and an idea of the system of management in encli. 
iiud of the whole. The student is left to sui)])ly the details. A 
hi tie study will reveal the thoroughness of the method of mau- 
jigement: the ease with which the system ada])ts itself to everv 
demand and emergency: the illimitable scope of its possibilities: 
the scarcely possible ()])])ortunity for fraud: the e(|ual chances 
all have to advance: the su])reme management by the people at 
all times: the impossibility for poverty and ignorance to exist: 



the inability of individuals to amass large fortunes; the shorten- 
ing of the hours of labor, and the great opportunity for recrea- 
tion and culture; the removal of incentive to crime; the inde- 
pendency of all; the handsome income of each; the absence ot 
all anxiety, save obligation to render satisfactory service; the 
abolition of expensive armies and navies; the settlement of the 
tariff and revenue questions. A speedy and satisfactory adjust- 
ment of the money problem; the natural death of the great 
national gambling system; the final settlement of the liquor 
problem by nationalizing it to a perfect standard, as any other 
commodity, thus removing the incentive to adulteration and 
sale; the perfect system of education, whereby each individual 
is thoroughly trained and developed; the death of all political 
systems and so of fraud, class legislation and intrigue; the speedy 
and continuous employment of the masses. The greatest of all 
questions — religion and religious differences — is forever settled. 
The cessation of hardships and deprivations on frontier and re- 
mote districts by the advantages of colonization methods, etc. 
The question of Sunday observance and all other vexing ques- 
tions are solved. 

HALLS or EDrc'ATION AND CFLTFEE. 

We have given but a brief sketch of this department, merely 
outlining the nature, object and scope of this feature of "The 
New Government." On the principle set forth in the preamble 
of this section, "that a wise government provides for the highest 
and every interest of its subject, and preserves and perpetuates 
itself by so doing," it necessarily predetermines the character of 
that subject, in conformity to the eternal Divine principles upon 
which it The New Government is builded, viz: T;ove, Justice and 
Equality of Rights; so the student will perceive the inadequacy 
of a government to sustain this character without the wise pro- 
vision and constant fostering care. The student will also see, 
how that by the perfect system of education, culture and recrea- 






tion from the cradle to manhood and womanhood, sooner or 
later every child, unavoidably by the very nature of the condi- 
tions surrounding it, is forced to receive just such an early train- 
ing. The same social, intellectual and physical opportunity; 
the same universal, ethical and spiritual education, constitute the 
heart of The New Government, which throbs forth fresh blood 
at every pulsation of its wonderful yet simple and harmonious 
order thrilling with intensive energy, every fibre of the vast 
organism, creating, sustaining and perpetuating its life. 

The student will forsee the result of the public platform 
teaching, burning with keen criticism, advanced ideas, exalted, 
progressive demonstrations in every line of human conception, 
that religious dogmas, sectarian tenets and creedal systems will 
finally die their inevitable death, and in their place will reign an 
imbroken, harmonious system of ethical and spiritual truisms. 



The New Government. 



BOOK I. 

PART FIRST. 
CHAPTER I. 



Basic ?Yi.\NC\PLES— Lave, Justice, and Equality ofl^ghts. 



FUNDAMENTAL LAWS. 

1st r.aw: — The adjustability and adaptability of a s^-stem to 

meet all present and future demands. 
2<1 Law — The development and utilization of every natural 

gift of every citizen of the government. 
3d Law — The development and use of nature's resources within 

the jurisdiction of the government, for the highest benefit 

of all. 
4th Law — The government retained in the hands and power of 

the people by direct legislation. 
oth Law — The employment of all willing to work, and each one 

employed in his or her sphere of choice or fitness. 
(Hh Law — The law of Compensation — Value for Value. 



14 THE NEW GOVERNMENT. 

7th Law — The maximum wage for the minimum of time and 
service, according to the condition of the treasury, and the 
greatest possible returns for the least possible cost. 

8th Law — No discrimination in favor of sex or individuals, each 
one standing wholly on his or her own merits or needs. 

9th Law — Constant effort to secure the best in everything. 

10th Law — The least possible time of labor and the greatest 
possible time for recreation, self-improvement and culture, 
compatable with the best interest of all. 



CHAPTER 11. 



Constitution of The New Government. 

We, the People, instituting the System of The New Govern- 
ment as a plan of rational co-operation, based upon the principles 
of Love, Justice and Equality of Rights, in order to further the 
present and future highest interests of ourselves, our cliildren 
and our posterity, as well as ITniversal Man, do ordain and es- 
tablish this Constitution for the Citizens of the New Government: 

ARTICLE I. 

Section 1. The legislative powers shall remain in the hands 
of the citizens. They shall retain the right to formulate, intro- 
duce and vote upon all measures of importance. 

Sec. 2. The administration of laws, the business control, 
management and direction of public affairs shall be vested in a 
House of Business, consisting of the Manager in Chief, x^^ssistant 
Manager, Clerk of the House, the Central Committee, and Sec- 
retaries and Assistant Secretaries of the different departments, 
the Commissioners and the standing committees, all of whom 
shall be chosen each year by the citizens. 



COXSTITUTIOX. 15 

See. 3. Xo person shall be a member of the House of lousiness, 
who shall not have reached the age of 21, of either sex, and been 
a citizen of The Xew Government in accredited standing and 
l)assed a satisfactory examination as to his or her qualifications, 
before the Board of Examiners in the manner hereinafter pre- 
scribed by law. 

Sec. 4. When vacancies occnr in the House of Business, the 
next highest officer or manager shall assume "the duties of tlie 
vacant position in the Department. 

Sec. 5. The legal number of citizens having tlie right to in- 
itiate a law, shall have the Power of ]m})eachment, as well as the 
House of Business. 

The House of Business shall have the sole power to try all 
Impeachments; and no person shall be convicted without tlie 
concurrence of two-thirds of the members present. 

Judgment in cases of Impeachment shall require removal from 
office and disqualification to hold or enjoy any office of honor, 
trust, or ]3rofit in The Xew Government until such offender is 
restored to his former privileges by the legal number of the citi- 
zens as referred to in Sec. 10, Art. 1. 

Sec. 6. The times, places and manner of holding elections 
shall be prescribed by the House of Business, according to the 
requirements of The Xew Government. 

Sec. 7. The House of Business shall assemble for the trans- 
action of business and important matters as often as necessary; 
and shall be judge of the elections. 

A majority of the House shall constitute a quorum to do 
])usiness. 

The House shall determine its own rules of proceedings, and 
^hall keep a journal of the same, which shall be published in the 
Government Organ. 

Sec. 8. A schedule of salaries from the Manager-in-Chief 



1 6 ' THE NEW GOVEENMENT. 

clown to the smallest office, shall be apportioned b}^ the Central 
Committee, adopted or amended by two-thirds of the Honse. 
These salaries shall be adjusted each year, according to the state 
of the treasury, and no member of the Honse of Business shall 
receive pay for extra meetings, excepting mileage. 

Sec. 9. All measures of importance originating in the 
House of Business, or with the ^'Legal number of Citizens" shall 
at the next General Election, or sooner if urgent, be submitted 
to the Citizens for vote and when it receives a majority vote, 
shall then become a law; and in the same manner shall laws be 
repealed. 

Sec. 10. Each Citizen has the right to initiate a measure, 
and if five per cent of the Citizens indorse the same it shall then 
be submitted to the general vote. 

Sec. 11. A tax of $1.00 per month shall be levied on all 
Citizens and shall constitute the entire tax, which shall con- 
tinue until the state of the treasury no longer requires it; or 
until such time as The New Government assumes control of 
municipal, state or national affairs, when the tax shall then be 
re-adjusted. The above tax does not affect the rental of lands, 
houses or property, water, light, telephone, telegraph, etc., owned 
by The New Government. 

Sec. 12. The House of Business shall be empowered, sub- 
ject to the will of the Citizens, to borrow money on the credit 
of The New Government, for the purpose of investment in any 
new department of enterprise deemed expedient for the best in- 
terests of the Citizens. 

The House of Business shall have power to regulate in all com- 
mercial relations in which The New Government may be involved 
internally and externally. 

To establish, foster and develop productive enterprises; 

To devise and carry out the most perfect system of distri- 
bution; 



COXSTITUTIOX. 17 

To establish New Government Central and Sul). iJaiiks: 

To provide and build up transportation and communication 
facilities; 

To encourage National Talent and Genius bv assisting in, 
or securing for Authors and Inventors, publication of works and 
patents; 

To institute and preserve Public Bureaus of information and 
registration of Labor, Trades and Professions; 

To provide for Citizens, Public Dispensaries and tlie services 
of Governmental Pliysicians; 

To secure for Citizens a maximum of Insurance, both Life, 
Accidental and Fire, for the minimum of cost; 

To make appropriations for the establishment and maintain- 
ance of Halls of Education and Culture, and liave Governmental 
supervison over the same; 

To .project and carry forward schemes for (.'olonization, Im- 
provement, etc. 

AETICLE IL 

MANAGEK-IN-CHIE F. 

Section 1. The supreme management of The Xew Govern- 
mc-nt shall be vested in a ]\Ianager-in-Chief, tirst and second As- 
sistant Managers. They shall be elected annually as all other 
members of the House of Business. Xo ])erson shall be eligible 
to the office of ]\[anager-in-Chief except in a manner i)rescribed 
by law. requiring a given length of time f-or citizenship, and an 
age of thirty years. 

Sec. 2. The Manager-in-Chief shall ]u'eside as President at 
all meetings of the House of Business. His duties, powers and 
privileges shall be limited only in a manner hereinafter |U-e- 
scribed by law. 



1 8 THE NEW GOVERNMEXT. 

ARTICLE III. 
JUDICIAL POWER. 

Section 1. The Judicial Power of The New Goverament 
shall be vested in an Advisory Bench, consisting of an Attorney- 
in-Chief and Assistant Attorneys and Court of Judges. They 
shall be elected annually and receive compensation, according to 
adjustment of claims for services by the Central Committee, until 
such time as duties are constant, when salaries shall be appor- 
tioned. 

Sec. 2. The Advisory Bench shall be employed by The New 
Government as council in all matters of law pertaining to exter- 
nal relations and to adjudicate in all internal matters as cases 
of Law and Equity arising under the Constitution. 

Sec. 3. When several of the Local New Governments unite 
and form A State New Government, then a Supreme State Bench 
shall also be created, the members of which shall be elected from 
the Local iidvisory Benches or by the Citizens as shall be pre- 
scribed by law.* 

Sec. 4. When The New Government assumes the control of 

Municipal, State or National Government, then the Benches 

shall be re-adjusted and systematized into departmental work in 

keeping with the increased functions of the Judicial Power. 

ARTICLE IV. 

SURRENDER OF SUPREME RIGHT. 

Section 1. When there are several Local New Governments, 
any one may take the initiative step in the formation of a State 
New Government, and when any Local New Government merges 
into The State New Government, it shall then surrender its right 
of Supreme Management to the Supreme Management of the 

*And when several State New Governments unite and form a National New 
Government, then a Supreme National Bench shall be created, the members of 
which shall be elected from the various State Benches. 



COXSTITUTIOX. 19 

Sbate Xew Cxovernmemt, retainino- all its inherent right of man- 
agement, and having a proportional representation in the State 
'loviso of Business, by members elected from the Local House 
of Business by the House, or bv the Citizens of tlie Local Xew 
Government, as sliall be prescribed by law. 

AKTICLE V. 
BOUNDARIES OF LOCAL XEW GOVERXMEXTS. 

Section 1. The Boundary Lines of the Local Government 
shall be determined at its org-anization and adjusted afterwards 
by common consent of the Local Governments or delermined ])\ 
the State Government. 

ARTICLE VI. 
NEW GOVERNMENT OFFKTAL ORGAN. 
Section 1. A Daily Bulletin of Official Business, Labor Sta- 
tistics, Financial Reports, Registrations and all matters pertain- 
ing to the interest of the Citizens of the New Government shall 
be published in the New Government papers. And Monthly 
and Annual Reports shall be publislied and kepi in all public 
places. 

ARTICLE VII. 
NO SECTARIAN TEAC^HING. 
Section 1. The House of Business shall not permit sectarian 
teaching in any of the Halls of Education and Culture, but there 
sliall be no discrimination in favor or against any Religious Sect 
whatsoever, occupying the platforms of the Halls of Public 
Teacliino;. 

ARTICLE VIII. 
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. 

Section 1. The Constitution may be Amended at any time by 
a majority of the Citizens. 



20 THE NEW GOVERmmET. 

CHAPTEEIIL 
FUXCTIOXS OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT. 

The New Government exercises all the f "unctions af any well 
organized Government body. 

As a legislative power it enacts laws for the most ])erfect man- 
agement of the co-operative interests of its citizens; this power is 
vested in a Hottse of Basinesg in common with direct legislation 
Ly the citizens. 

As an execntive power, it carries into effect all snch laws as 
m.av he enacted for the wise management of the business and 
social relations of citizens, and has for its head the Manager-in- 
Oliief and assistants, and all other officers necessary to manage 
in the various departments of super visional work. 

As a Jiidieiary power it interprets and construes the laws of 
The New Government and decides in all cases^ with equity in ac- 
cordance with the basic principles of the Constitution, viz: Love^ 
Justice and Equality of Rights. This power of The New Gov- 
ernment is vested in an Advisoiy Bench, composed of the At- 
toTiJcy-in-Chief and assistant attorneys and Courts of Judges. 

Note, — When "The New Government" grows to the extent that it necessarily 
assumes management of all Municipal, State and National affairs, its 
functions will be greatly augmented: and the adaptibility of its government 
by its flexible ancT comprehensive character, not only to adjust itself to a 
limited industrial co-operative organization, but also to readily adapt itself 
as a perfect system of Government, to the complex character of a vast Co- 
operative Commonwealth is manifest. [see FUNDAMENTAL LAW 1.] 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE HOUSE OF BUSINESS. 

The House of Business is composed of the Manager-in-Chief, 
4?siR''-ant Managers-in-Chief, the Clerk of the House, the Secre- 
taries, Superintendents or Managers and Assistant Mannv;ers of 



THE iiorsE OF r>rsrxESs. 21 

ilie various department- of Governmental vrork, and the man- 
i;<rcrs of each distinct sii])-divi8ion, Attornev-in-Chief and As^ist- 
:ants. The Central Connnittee, Departmental Conunittees. Ex- 
jiminino- ( ommittee, Plivsienm-in-Cliief and Assistant and In- 
sjjeclors. 

The functions of the Honse of Business as a law-making, ex- 
ecutive and judicial body are regulated by the Constitution. 

The members are elected annually by the citizens, thus ])ro- 
viding an easy method of dropping from office an inefficient, in- 
♦'apai.ie or unworthy person, in such cases where it would be un- 
wise to suspend or expel. 

The qualifications or unfitness for positions are soon appar- 
ent, and the simple operation of electing annually does not pre- 
clude the long-continued service of valuable officials. 

In case of a vacancy in any position the next person in rank 
fdls the vacancy, thus avoiding delays, extra trouble and fav- 
oritism. 

Candidates for m.eml)ership of the House must l)e at least '^1 
years of age. 

The voting age of Citizens is 18 yeai-s of age. 

Persons of both sexes may be received as Citizens at the age of 
15 years. 

The ^lanager-in-Chicf, by virtue of his otlice. is the ])residing 
officer of all meetings of the House, and in his absence the First 
Assistant Manager officiates. 

The salaries of members of the House are in keejnng with Fun- 
damental Law 7, and are adjusted by the Central- Committee. 
This is also the case with every employee of the Government. 

Xo money can be drawn from the treasury of The New^ Gov- 
ernment for any purpose whatever without such money having 
been appropriated by the House for such purpose. 

Each Local Government is entitled to proportional represen- 



22 THE XEW GOVEEXMENT. 

tation in tlie State Government, elected in the manner pre- 
."^cribed by law: 

And likewise, State Governments are entitled to send represen- 
tatives to the National Government. 

Employees in all of the departments and snh-departments are 
selected by the managers to. fill positions and vacancies, in the 
order in wbich their names appear on the constantly revised lists 
in the Bnrean of Labor, Trades, Arts, and Professions. 

The mf mbej's of the House, as well as all candidates for Citi- 
zenship are required to solemnly subscribe to the basic principles 
raid Constitution of the Government. 

All measures are introduced into the House, or by the House^ 
and acted upon according to the manner prescribed by law. 

All business is conducted by the House according to its own 
regulations in a manner to insure accuracy, completeness and dis- 
])atch. 



CHAPTER V. 



THE DEPARTMENTS OF BUSINESS. 
MAN A GER-IN-CHIEF. 

i^'irst comes the Manager-in-Chief in the Executive Depart- 
ment of The New Government, who must at least be 30 years 
of age. 

His duties are to see that all the laws and regulations of The 
Government are carried out; 

To preside at the meetings of the House and to sign all im- 
portant papers; 

To consult with the Secretaries and direct in the affairs of 
any Department to the extent of his ability, in keeping Avith the 



DEPAKTMEXTAL WORKIXGS. 23 

laws, and the course of wise business management. 

lie cannot assume any imperative dictation over any of his 
subordinates. He acts in council with the Secretaries, Superin- 
tendents, and Managers of the different Departments, and so 
directs and suggests to the House. 

He is obhged to have a keen insight into tlie different depart- 
ments, and to be able to adjust, by personal supervision, or by 
suggestive measures to the House, any unbalanced conditions in 
the relative workings of the various Departments. 

He has his two Assistants and a Secretary. The First xVssist- 
ant succeeds the Chief in case of death, resignation or disability. 
In a State Government tlie Manager is called Governor; in 
the National New Government he is called President. His 
duties and scope of work are enlarged as a State ]\Ianager, but 
his reguhitions ami powers are the same. When tlie present State 
(Government merges into the New Government, he still has in- 
ci'eased duties and adds to his staff. Any necessary enhirgement 
of Constitutional jiowers cannot conflict with the Funtiamenta) 
Laws. 



THE DEPARTMENT OF JFSTICE. 

The Advisory Bench manages in all the Judicial affaii's per- 
taining to the Government in its regulations, and in private af- 
fairs of ( *itizens. The Bench is made up of the Attorney-in-Chief 
and his Assistants and Local Court of Judges, corresponding to 
the requirements, each one having charge of a S])ecia] Depart- 
ment of legal business. 

In the establishment and early growth of The New Govern- 
ment, the functions of the Advisory Bench are essential to the 
adjustment of all matters arising out of business relations, inter- 
nal and external, and lesral service for the benefit of all Citizens: 



24 TFI.E NEW GCVVEENMENT. '■ 

but when the Municipal, State and National Governments, as 
existing, are merged into The New Government, then the Depart- 
ment of Justice is augmented and the functions of the Advisory 
Bench are extended to all the Departments of Law within the 
jurisdiction of Governments, Local, State and National. 

In the State and National Departments of Justice in The 
New Government, the chie fofficials are called Attorney-General 
and Solicitor-General, and the Courts of Judges are the State 
Supreme C^ourt of Judges, and the National Supreme Oourt of 
Judges. These Supreme Courts of Judges assist in rendering 
decision? in all difficult cases in the Local Courts of Judges. 



DEPARTxMENT OF COMMEECE AND DISTEIlUnMON. 

The duties of the Secretary of Commerce are to superintend, 
direct and manage in all internal and external and commercial 
relations of The New Government; such as the purchase of com- 
modities outside the Local Government and from Local Gov- 
ernments; the sale of commodities within the Government and 
outside, and to other Local Governments. 

He fixes the prices on all products and merchandise, a daily 
bulletin is issued, so every Citizen may know the exact values 
and prices. 

The Secretary has one or more assistants, according to the 
volume of business, and managers and clerks over and in the dif- 
ferent sub-departments. 

The Department of State, Commerce and Distribution is 
the Central Commercial House for all Local Governments: 

Here, the Secretary attends to all inland and interstate com- 
merce, fixing the prices for the State imports and exports at home 
and abroad. 



DEPAKTMENTAL WORKIXGS. 25 

Tlie Secretary of The Xational Xew Government ^assists, ad- 
vises, facilitates and regulates in all matters of interstate and in- 
ternational commerce; 

Hence, regulates in the prices of Xational commodities at 
home and for abroad. 

The process of distribution, exchange and purcliase of com- 
modities is simple in the Local Government. 

All orders and requirements are sent to the Central House 
by the ^Managers or Sub-Managers of the different Departments. 
Instructions are sent to the various points from the Central 
House, and the orders aj'e immediately filled. The Manager 
knowing at all times the su])])ly and demand. 

DEPAirrMEXT OE PKODUCTIOX. 

The duties of the Secretary of Production, are to superin- 
tend, direct and manage the productive ])o\vers and processes of 
the Government. He is in direct touch with the Secretary of 
Commerce and so regulates in the su])ply of different commodi- 
ties. Knowing the demand, the Citizens })urchasing entirely 
their own products, the Manager is fully protected; and so everv 
brcinch of industry is established and carried on in keeping with 
the demands, locally, at home and abroad. The Secretary has 
one or more assistants according to the volume of business, and 
Su])erinten-dents, Managers and Foremen in the many Sub-De- 
])a]'tuieuts of manufactories, Earming, Stock-raising, Mining, 
Horitculture, Dairying, Painting. Sculpture, etc.. Public Ex- 
hibits, etc., etc. 

The Secretary is limited in his powers as the Manager-in- 
Chief is, and as all the other Managers are, on the assumption 
that one individual cannot be thoroughly informed on all 
brMnches of business; therefore, he acts in council with his sub- 
ordinates. 



26 THE m^W GOVERNMENT. 

All new departures without the sanction of the House are 
made at his own responsihility, and he is held personally account- 
ahle. 

He has no power to make appointments to important posts, 
or to remove, without the endorsement of the House. 

The Managers, Superintendents, Foremen and employees re- 
tain their positions at will, upon satisfactory service, until pro- 
motion. 

In the State Department of Production, all the local man- 
ufacturing and producing concerns become States branches or 
State Main establishments, and are so under the general super- 
vision of the State Secretary and Corresponding Managers. Thus 
the entire interests of the Local Governments are blended int.) 
one common interest, and yet in no wise does any Local Govern- 
ment lose its individuality and powers as, no State official has 
any special prerogatives over any local official, no more than any 
local official has any special powers over a subordinate, as even a 
subordinate has a voice in his own affairs. 

It is seen in the State Department of Production how read- 
ily the supply is adjusted to meet the demands, at home, inter- 
state, and abroad, as the Secretary is in touch Avith the Secretary 
of Commerce and Distribution, who knows at all times the orders 
and demands for commodities interlocal or State, interstate and 
foreign; inasmuch as no foreign commodities are consumed 
where the State can produce them herself. 

And in the National Government the great producing con- 
cerns of the various States are blended in common interest and 
superintended by the National Department of Production, in the 
same manner as the State manages the local concerns. In this 
way, the Council of the National Secretary Department of Pro- 
duction is in direct touch with the councils of the State Depart- 
ment, and they with the Local Councils, in the Department of 



DEPAKT:\IEXTAL A\'r)HlvIXGS. 27 

Commerce and Distribution, both Xational, State and Local; 
hence, it is seen that supply and demand are adjusted and regu- 
lated to a nicety. Everv branch of industry is stimulated to its 
fullest capacity, as no foreign j^roducts are needed, since the 
Nation, by the most perfect system of production, supplies her 
own demands, which are very great, as every individual is em- 
plo^-ed at ^nll, in some branch of industry, earning liberal sal- 
aries, hence, consuming largely. 

There are also large s\ir])lus supplier to fill foreign demands, 
M-hich tends to regulate the supply. 

There are no remarkable changes in home consumption and 
foreign demand?; hence, there is little difficulty in regulating 
the wheels of ])roduction, which is easily done by shortening 
houi^ of labor. (Fundamental Law 10.) 

The question of tariff and duties no longer trouble, what the 
Xation does not produce, her ports are oj^en to receive at the 
lowest price. 

The margin of profits on all sales at home and abroad settles 
the question of revenue. 

By this system of revenue the treasury is always overflow- 
mo; with funds for reduction of cost of commodities and launch- 
ing of enterprises or Xational, State and Local improvements. 

In the event of vacated positions, the next in rank or prior- 
ity of registration fills the post, if his ability is apparent. The 
qualification of any candidate for position is determined by the 
Examining Committee, and also by a Sub-Committee from any 
one of the Sub-Departments in which the person seeks position. 



DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIO:^" AND COMMFXI- 

CATIOX. 

The Secretary of Transportation and Communication super- 



28 THE NEW G0VERN:\LENT, 

intends the management of all public means of transportation by 
land, water and air, such as street-car lines, local and transconti- 
nental railroads, ferry-boats, carrying boats, trading vessels,, 
steamers, etc., also all public means of communication by tele- 
graph, telephone, postal and messenger, also parcel delivery, local 
transfer of baggage and goods, etc., etc. The departments, 
are numerous, so the Secretary has several Assistants and Super- 
intendents and Managers in the different branches. 

The Secretary in this Department has no more powers than 
the Secretaries of other Departments. While they sign all im- 
portant documents, direct and control in all ordinary matters, yet 
in all important alfairs they call their council, or staff officers, con- 
sisting of their xVssistant Superintendents and Managers, in any 
given Sub-Department concerned, and by such concerted action, 
devise and institute plans and measures, and even then no very 
important radical change can be effected without the sanction of 
the House, in turn supported by the Citizens. 

In case of service performed by the Government for any 
Citizen, such as the transportation of self or personal effects, serv- 
ice of telephone or telegraph, etc., the same rule applies as in all 
commodities sold or purchased. The greatest possible service 
for the least possible cost, so fulfilling (Eundamental Law 7) 
The funds of the Public Treasury are always increased by a small 
margin of profit. 

In the State Department the Secretary manages all such 
transportation and communication, interlocal and State, controls 
the State railroads and state vessels of commerce, passenger and 
freight traffic, etc. 

The National Department manages all National lines and 
roads and international systems of transportation and commun- 
ication, etc. 



DEPAirniKXTAl. WOKKTXaS. '29 

DEPARTMEXT OF THE TREASURY. 

The Secretan' of the Treasury has charge of the finances of 
the Government, and is custodian of its funds, and is required to 
keep the public accounts. 

He is in direct touch with the Central Committee and with 
their aid and that of his Assistanti?, prepare plans to provide a 
public revenue according to law and to maintain the public credit, 
and to report to the House what sums of money are required to 
tarry on the difl'erent Departments of Government: he is re- 
quired to superintend the collection of all revenues, issue all war- 
rants on which money may be drawn from, or paid into tlie treas- 
ury of the Government; to manage all indebtedness: and su])ervise 
tlie Government Banks. 

The Secretary of the Treasury has one or more Assistant Sec- 
retaries, according tt) the volume of l)usiness, and they have 
charge of the different sub-divisions of Treasury work, assisted in 
these sub-divisions by Clerks, Comi)trollprs. Auditors. Treasurers 
and Registrars. 

The functions of this Department and number of ofKcers 
are materially increased in the State and Xational Governments, 
especially when all the duties belonging to the present Depart- 
ment of the Treasury are assumed by The X'ew Governuumt. 
This Department then becomes very extensive and c(mi])lex. 

Each Local Government has a Central Bank and brancli 
banks, according to the needs of tlie Citizens, whether in the same 
city or in suburban towns, or districts, or colonies. 

At these banks the officers and employees draw their salaries 
and wages at stated times, according to de]3artment regulations, 
having received their certificates signed and countersigned bv the 
proper officers. 

Money is received on deposit at tliese banks and interest al- 



30 THE KEAY GOVERNMENT. 

lowed if money is in demand. The Government also makes loaii^ 
to Citizens if the state of the Treasury admits it, at a low rate of 
interest. 

When the New Government assnmes control of National 
affairs, then the Treasnry Department prov:ides a money circula- 
tion ol such a character and to the extent as is required and de- 
manded by the Government. 



DEPARTMENT OF COLONIZATION, BUILDING AND 
IMPROVEMENT, 

The Secretary of this Department has charge of all exten- 
sion of public enterprise in improvement, and purchase of lands 
for the establishment of industries, manufactories, mining, stock- 
raising, orcharding, gardening, farming, dairying, etc., and for 
colonization purposes, in suitable localities for any such named 
industries; to build tenement houses and erect cottages for rental 
to Citizens. To construct local lines of telephone and telegraph, 
etc.; to sink artesian wells and purchase or secure water supplies, 
gas and electric lighting, heating, plumbing, etc., and all matters 
pertaining to public and private decoration, adornment, construc- 
tion and repairs. 

He has one or more assistants, according to the extent of 
business done, Superintendents, Managers and Foremen over the 
various Sub-Divisions of work. 

When the Local Government assumes control of Municipal 
affairs, then the Secretary is charged with street grading and im- 
provement, building of bridges, car lines, opening of water ways, 
sanitary improvements, yards and docks, etc. In the State and 
National Department of Colonization Building and Improve- 
ment, when the present State and National Governments are 



DEPAKTMKNTAT. WOi^KIXGS. 31 

merged into The Xew Government, great scope is offered for pub- 
lic enterprise. Then it is that States and Xational Departments 
carry on a vast system of improvement. A])propriations are 
made for thoroughly equipped railroads, State and Xational lines; 
the opening of ever\' available waterway; the building of first- 
class macadamized highways; the colonization of fertile spots by 
the building of towns and cities; the utilization of great stock 
ranges, for stock-raising and breeding; the opening up and de- 
velopment of mines of all kinds; the planting and protection of 
timber belts; the reclamation of at present vast tracts of useless 
hinds-: the turning of water courses for fructifying desert and arid 
vnstts: the fostering (jf industries indigenous to soil and climate, 
the utilization of all devices and plans for the most perfect con- 
struction of improved vehicles, rolling-stock, vessels and systems 
of transportation and communication; the erection of accommo- 
dation houses, hospitals, prisons, asylums, schools, halls of educa- 
tion and culture, public ])laces of resort, ])ublic places of art, parks 
aiul hills of exhibits, etc. (Thus Fundamental Law 3) is fulfilled. 



J)fp.\ijt:\ikxt of tradfs. akts, labor AXD PKO- 

FESSIOXS. 

The Secretary of this Department has in his charge all mat- 
ters [)ertaining to the Ihireaiis of Fm])loyment, Registration and 
Information. 

His duties are to keep constantly revised lists of registered 
])ersons in the different trades, arts, labor and ])rofessions, ob- 
tained from the re])orts of the Examining Committee; the reports 
embrace the name, age, residence, family relations, health, quali- 
fications, standard and credentials, service, occu])ation, choice, 
births, deaths, marriages, etc.; these lists are filed in the different 
D('])artments of the ]>ureaus, accesible at any time to the Secre- 



32 THE NEW GOTERNMENT. 

taries, Superintendents, Managers and Foremen of all Depart- 
ments of the Government. The person whose name appears first 
on the revised list, because of priority of registration, or superior 
qualification, receives the vacant position at will; thus all appoint- 
ments are settled; the Secretary furnishes transcripts of such lists 
to other Local Governments and to the State Government 
monthly; the State Department in turn furnishes yearly report? 
to the National Department; so tliat every Citizen has a national 
record and reputation; thus if any Local Government has an im- 
portant post to fill, and no available, suitable person, all that is 
necessary, is to send to the State Bureau, and if the State Depart- 
ment is called upon for such a person and none are available in 
the State, the National Department furnishes the competent in- 
dividual, thus (Fundamental Law 9) is observed. 

The Secretary furnishes periodical reports to the Secretaries 
of the various Departments, showing the supply and demand of 
tradesmen, tradeswomen, artisans, laborers and professional per- 
sons. In this way there originates from the Secretaries of the 
Departments schemes and plans for enterprises or enlargement of 
present plants, for the purpose of employing unoccupied persons, 
and if the heads of Departments are so limited in their power as 
not to be able to meet the demands, then the House of Busines^^ 
must take action. So that (Fundamental Law 5) is fulfilled. 

The Secretary keeps in order the Hall of Public Informa- 
tion, the systems of classified and progressive reports, and statis- 
tics pertaining to every Department of Government, reaching 
through all their Sub-Departments and Divisions and Sub-Divis- 
ions; also furnishes Local Government directories to the Citizens, 
The State Departments contain similar reports and statistics per- 
taining to all the operations of State Departments in their Halls 
of Information, and furnish State Directories to all Local Halls, 
and in the National Hall of Information there is a grand amass- 



DEPAirniEXTAL WORKIXOxS. 33 

ment of reports and statistics, both home and foreign. Annual 
condensed reports and National Directories are furnished every 
State and Local Government, so that every Citizen may have 
access at any time to all transactions of Houses of Business, acts 
of officiating and managing heads, the persons and interests con- 
cerned; in fact, has at his hand complete, accurate information 
concerning everything done in the Xation and by whom; thus 
the Citizen can become an intelligent voter and law-maker as im- 
jilied in (Fundamental Law 4.) 

The Secretary receives from the Clerk of the House of Busi- 
nej^s all reports of proceedings; returns from the Clerk of Elec- 
tions, reports from the Secretaries, Superintendents and Managers 
of the diiferent Departments; these are chissified and arranged 
for the Secretary of Printing, together with prepared and re- 
vised lists, for mailing, detached or entire reports to Departments 
or indiA'iduals. 

He has Assistants and Managers in the many Sub-Depart- 
ments. 



DEPARTMENT OF PUBLICATION AND PHINTING. 

The Secretary of this Department is charged with the Publi- 
cation of the (government Paper; the publication of all books and 
jierioflicals, stationery su])plies, and all manner of printing, ste- 
rcoty])ing, litlu)gra])hing and engraving. 

He has Assistant Secretaries, Su})erintendents, ^lanagers and 
Foremen. His ])owers are limited as well as the other Secre- 
tciries. 

GOVERNMENT PAPERS. 

There nre three Government papers, which every Citizen may 
obtain at a nominal cost. The local dailies, which furnish the 
news of its Local Government doino-s, markets, etc., and woi-ld 



34 THE m:W GOVERXMEI^T. 

iiews^ morning and evening. The State daily, which furnished 
information of Local Government doings, statistics, etc., and the 
National weeldy, which furnishes the Nation's reports, statistic^^ 
and official business, etc. 

BOOKS, PERIODICALS AND CONTRIBUTIONS. 

All matter for publication in book or periodical form, oi* 
newspaper contribution, passes into the hands of the Editorial 
Committee for examination and valuation, if the manuscript be 
worthy of publication, the price or royalty is fixed and copyright? 
secured, and the books, printed at the Government's or author',- 
risk; thus every author is fully protected and encouraged by re- 
ceiving value for merit. 

There are several weekly and monthly publications, all of 
high-class icharacter, in which the fertile mind finds full scope for 
expression; they are descriptive and narrative, historical, scientific 
and philosophic, all profusely illustrated with rich engravings. 
The Government paper contains various lists daily and weekly of 
ull such books and periodicals. 

BLANKS, MAILING REPORTS, ETC. 

Blanks, reports, printed instructions, etc., are furnished sys- 
tematically to all of the different Departments and officials, of- 
ficial bulletins, market reports, public bulletins, the classified 
character of which has been prepared and furnished by the Bureau 
of Information. 

In the Publication and Printing Department, the work is 
carried on in one large establishment, or Departmental building, 
according to convenience. 



DEPAirniKXTAT. WOI?KIXGS. 35 

ro:\iMisssioxERS of supplies. 

Tlie Superintendents of the main Departments; of Public 
Supplies constitute the Board of Commissioners. 

They manage the operations of public depots, where; are kept 
on display and sale, every species of production for, home con- 
sumption and use. These commodities are kept in central stores 
oi branch depots, according to demands or convenience; the 
goods are graded and classified and described in tlieir lists; one 
pi'ice is fixed in a ckss, which fluctuates according to the supply 
<ind demand. Daily bulletins of ])rices iufonu the pr.])lic, and 
tlie person ordering, always may know jnst wliat class of goods 
51 nd the cost before they order. 

Cash is the basis of all transactions. 

As there is but out' ])rice, sales ai-t' (juii-kly made and busi- 
ness simplified. 

All remissness is ]u-omptly reported, and so the best of service 
is secured. 

This Department also includes public resorts, hotels, lodging 
bouses, eating, refreshment houses,hairdressing, barbering, etc., 
etc. Here (Fundamental Laws G, 7 and 9) come in. 

In this De])artment, as well as in all others, a vast aruiy of 
<dl grades are employed. 

Each evening the money taken is collected by the Bank Col- 
lector and deposited in the a])|)ointed banks, and accounts taken, 
so that each day's reports show the volume of business and Treas- 
i-ry condition. The system of councils in the different Depart- 
ments, De]')artment Committees' reports. Inspectors' re])orts and 
Central Committees' reports, make it utterly im])ossible, if any 
one so wished, to embezzle or defraud. 

As a matter of course, the State Commissioners in this De- 
partment, as well as in the others, supervise wisely the interest 
of all Local Governments in the public State service. 



36 THE N'EW aOVERXMEKT, 

COMMISSIONERS OP HEALTH. 

The Board of Health Commissioners is composed of the Phy- 
sician-in-Chief, Head Physicians of the Government Hospitals 
and Public Dispensary Department, the Presidents of the Colleges 
of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, and Veterinary College and 
Head of Sanitary Department, and Manager of Chemical Works. 

They supervise the Government Hospitals for man and 
Least, they supervise and direct in the Medical Departments of 
Insane Asylums, Blind Asylums, Prisons, Orphanages, provide 
convenient public Dispensaries and Drug Stores; have in charge 
the district or ward service of physicians and nurses, supervise san- 
itary regulations, examine and control all compounds and new 
preparations, and recommend suitable rewards for valuable dis- 
coveries in medicine. 

By the means of the State and National Departments of 
Health, the Commissioners of which are representatives from 
the local boards of the State ,and representatives from the State 
boards to the National, the most perfect facihties are afforded, the 
greatest possibilities reached in providing complete sanitary sys- 
tems, and unlimited opportunities in the field of pathology. 



COMMISSIONEES OF PUBLIC SERVICi^. 
The Commissioners of this Department are the Managers of 
the different branches of public service, and are in numbers ac- 
cording to the extent of the Local Government. They have in 
charge the collection of all waste, and refuse, depositing all of 
any value at the factories or foundries, carry on shops of repair, 
provide storage for private goods and chattels, and also stores for 
the sale and exchange of personal effects. In the event of any 
one desiring to sell goods of any kind, advances are made to the 
limits of discretion and the goods are put on display for sale. 



LKPAKTMEXTAL AVORKIXGS. 37 

Tliev liav^ in charge Government laundries, cleaning and dyeing 
^establishments, i^rovide service for gardens, lawn^, and property 
repairs, etc. 

They have charge of crematories and burying grounds, and 
conduct funerals; women being the j^rincipals in performing the 
last services for the dead. 

They also have charge of the Fire Department and perform 
otlier miscellaneous functions. 



OOMMISSIOXEKS OF REFOKM AND PKOTECTIOX. 

The body of Reform and Protection Commissioners is made 
up of the Superintendents of Eeformatories, Insane and Blind 
Asylums, Orphanages, the various Homes of Refuge, Humane 
Courts, AVardens of Prison, Chief of Public Order*. Not until 
The New Government takes charge of Municipal affairs does this 
Department come into operation. Then it assumes manageuient 
and direction in the affairs of these public institutions, in the light 
ot The New Government methods. Asylums, Reformatory and 
Prison regime and discipline are modified in such management. 
Psycological methods in educational systems adapted to the var- 
iuos gi^ades of patients or criminals are introduced, aiming at 
the aAnikening of moral consciousness and psychic equilibrimu. 
(See chapter X, book II.) 

•^Corresponding to the Police Department as now. 



COAIMISSIONERS OF INSURANCE. 

The Commissioners of Insurance are the managers and assist- 
ant managers of the department of Life, Fire and Accident in- 
surance. 

A system of insurance is carried on ^^•hereby every citizen may 
have the maxiuium of iusurauce for the minimum of cost. This 



38 THP: new GGVERNIIEJ^^T. " - 

on the basis of the least risk, because of the most perfect protec- 
tion in the construction of all public buildings, manufactories 
and appliances and facilities in service, and security in travel^ 
and sanitary provisions. It will be seen when there is but one 
National Company, the insurance service becomes complete and 
if a benefits for low cost, universal and incalculable. 



COMMISSIONERS OF PATENTS. 

The Commissioners of Patents receive all applications for 
patents, examine and pass upon the merits of all inventions, con- 
struct the machines or devices, or manufacture the compounds^ 
utilizing the same in public service and for the public; and recom- 
r.send a certain royalty for a given length of time, for devices 
according to their merits. Thus every inventor has an oppor- 
tunity and full scope, to cultivate and utilize his or her inventive 
genius; so bringing into effect (Fundamental Law 2). 



THE C^EJSTTEAL COMMITTEE. 

The C'Cntral Committee is one of the chief organs of the House 
of Business. It is, so to speak, the mouth and stomach of the 
Government, into which and through which everything passes. 
It receives, digests and formulates and gives back again. It is the 
hopper into which all facts are deposited, these it digests and 
assimulates by producing systematic results ready for the sanction 
of the House, and then for the service of the departments. It 
manages all elections. 

It elects its own chairiuan, and appoints its own sub-com- 
Hiittees. 

Its members are in proportion to the volume of business done. 

It does not at any time or in any manner have absolute power, 



DEPARTMENTAL WORKINGS. 39 

its acts must be endorsed by the House and in turn by the citizens. 

The initiative of all laws passes into its hands; it can originate 
laws for the action of the House. 

Any measure originating by necessity in any department of 
business, passes to the Central Committee for framing. 

The Committee is in constant session and meets with all of the 
department Committees, Secretaries, Managers and Inspectors; 
It receives all mattei-s of business and reports;it appraises all valu- 
ations of property bought; it regulates the price of all property 
sold or rented; it fixes the price of commodities, and adjusts the 
vscliedule of salaries from the highest official to the laborer. 



EXAMINING COMMITTER 

The duties of the Examining Committee, are to receive appli- 
cations for citizenship; to make an accurate record of all neces- 
sary facts pertaining to the age, sex, occupation, residence, family 
relations, nativity, qualifications, credentials, standard, health, 
service, etc., to furnish such for registration; to examine candi- 
dates for positions, subject to the test conmiittees in sub-depart- 
uiental work, and after the standard is determined, to register 
such in their order of selection on the revised list of ready ap- 
])ointees. 

The Superintendent, manager and foreman of any de])artment 
oi work com] 3 rise the test committee, they receive no extra pay for 
si'.ch service. If, however, after the candidates recive appoint- 
ments and their practical service does not support the test, then 
they are relegated to their proper place, on the list. 

THE DEPARTMENT COMMITTEE. 

There is one committee for each of the great departments, and 



40 THE OT:\r GOA^ERXMEKT. 

are three in number. The}^ are elected by the citizens and act as^ 
regulators of the departments. They act for the departments in 
the same capacity as the Central Committee does for the House, 
All matters of the departments are received and digested by them 
and passed on to the Central Committee; they are in constant 
consultation with all the heads af the various sub-divisions of the 
departments. 



mSPECTOES. 

There is an Inspector for each of the departments of Govern- 
ment. He is elected by the citizens and has assistants according 
tc the extent of his department and requirements of office. His 
duties are to inspect the conditions existing in every sub-de- 
partment and branch within his supervision; to inspect commod- 
ities, and condemn if not up to standard requirements; to furnish 
accurate reports from time to time of all such conditions, pro- 
gress and needs, to the Secretaries, Central Committee, Deparc- 
ment Committees, Commissioners, and Public Bureau of In- 
formation. 

To him or sub-officials, all complaints are made. By this sys- 
tem of inspection, nothing can escape the notice of those immedi- 
ately r^r remotely officially concerned, as well as the vigilant cac 
of the Government "Organ". So the people are at all times in- 
formed as to precisely what conditions exist in any given depart- 
ment of Government. 



PART SECO.YD, 



Halls of Education and Culture. 



CHAPTER I. 

Thi^ Constittition oi The Kew Government provides for Halls 
of Edncation and Culture, based upon (Fundamental Law 2). A 
]jerfect (iovernment in its operations should not only be adapted 
ill its machinery, to adjust itself to meet every emergency which 
may arise in its swift path of proo:ress, but also to predetermine 
( onditions, not only for the masses, but for the individual; so that 
in its wise creation and ])rovidential care of the individual, the 
hiirliest welfare of all is secured under its beneficient reign. 
Therefore, The Xew Uovenrment recognizing man to be a social 
being, and each citizen a s])ecial charge, seeks to foster that 
charge by wisely providing means, not only for his support and 
existence, but for his happiness. That happiness can only be 
secured by developing every natural gift and faculty which the 
iiulivitlual possesses: So in keeping with these principles and 
observance of (Law 2) centres of education and culture are es- 
tablished. In the varicms departments of these Halls, all citizens 
may receive thorough education and culture, in any direction in 
which their particiilar tastes or desires might lead them, the only 
limit being the ])ower of acquirement. It will be seen by follow- 
ing the operations of the various departments of these centres of 
education and culture, how that the nature and character of the 
future citizens are predeterminated and thus the ideal state of 
social and civil life reached. 



42 THE KEW GOVERNMENT, 

CHAPTER II. 



THE GENERAL DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION AND 

CULTURE. 

These departments are nine in number. Each Centre may or 
may not embrace all of the departments according to its situation 
and the demands made upon it. A Centre is composed of one or 
more departments, and embraces all the halls in which the vari- 
ous branches of study and recreation are carried on. The Main 
Centres are the first formed in the Local Government and gener- 
ally embrace all the departments complete. In the district or 
ward centers, it is not necessary to have all the departments com- 
plete, such as the university, colleges, normal and mechanical 
halls, museums, extensive libraries, etc. There are no State and 
National supreme operations in this General Department as in the 
others, but State and National appropriations are made in ac- 
cordance with requirements and conditions of the treasury. (Fun- 
damental Law 8). 

The reason for full equipment of Centres, is, that equal oppor- 
tunities may be afforded at home for all citizens to reach the 
height of attainment. There are, however, special appropriations 
for State and National Capitols, to provide great and commodi- 
ous halls for convention and assembly purposes. While there are 
no State and National supervising officials, yet there are State 
Conventions and National Assemblies, made up of the Centres; 
thus the State and National Convention and Assembly halls are 
kept in almost constant use by conventions of professors, teach- 
ers, play actors, singers, ministers, secretaries, students, farmers, 
directors, artisans, etc., as well as from the other departments 
as mechanics, trades-men, trades-women, journey-men, clerks, 
apprentices, managers and superintendents in the given lines as 



EBUCATIOX AND Cn^TrHl".. 43 

repre'sented throiigliout the state. Thus extending information 
snd effort in every direction, and interbl ending localities and 
states and common life by social ties and kindred interests. 

CHAPTER III. 
THE DEPARTMENTS DESCRIBE!), 
The Secretary of Education and Culture has a general supeT- 
vision over the entire dej)artment and over all the centres within 
the bounds of the local riovernment and represents their interest- 
in the House of Business. He must be at least 35 years of age, 
iuid ]^ossessed of wide knowledge. His powers are limittnl as the 
other Secretaries are. 



THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PLATFORM TEACH^ 

ING. 

This Department is in charge of the lilinister of Public In- 
sturction. He must be possessed of large executive ability, .'i 
minister of broad, liljeral vie\\'s and progressive thought, a person 
of accredited scholastic training and spiritual character, capa- 
ble ol' abstaining from the presentation of sectarian dogmas. 

He is elected to the position by general election annually. 
Religious views play no part in this public place, nor in any de- 
partment of the New Government. 

No person is rejected or accepted because of belief in a given 
tenet of set of tenets. The duty of the Minister of Instruc;- 
tion are, to manage in the aifairsof public worship. The public 
worship on Sunday, consists in orchestral or choir or congrega- 
tional music, prayer, sermon or lecture, all conducted after the 
most approved methods, by which may be included the highest 
spiritual teaching. 

He secures from time to time, at his own discretion or bv re- 



44 THE NEAV GOVEKmiENT. 

quest, prominent, leading, advanced thinkers and teachers to 
occnpy the public platform in lecture or sermon. He superin- 
tends the children's Sunday training school; and he has over- 
sight of the Class School Culture Department and Preparatory 
Department, and constitutes one of a committee of the Board of 
Public Education, the Board of Public Amusement and the Board 
of Public Entertainment. In this department the service of song 
and music plays an important part in the Sunday assemblages, 
rnd on other special occasions. The finest musical talent is em-- 
ployed, large orchestras with scores of instruments, grand 
choruses sometimes numbering hundreds of voices in the large 
centres, thrill the assemblages with fitting spiritual hymns and 
songs, anthems and oratorios and prayers chanted and sung. 
Xo pains nor etforts are spared to make these public services of 
Srinday instruction, occasions of enobhng inspiring and spiritual 
])0\vcr. 

In this department also, is the Eclectic School of Divine Phil- 
osophy. It is a public meeting and held at suitable hours. Here 
all the religious systems and philosophies of the world are con- 
f^idered; papers are read and dissertations given and investigations 
made. Evervthing is viewed in candor and the truth extracted 
from all. 

In this department also, there is a school of Ethics and Philos- 
ophy of marriage, for young men and women, in which courses 
of lectures are given in sex relations, science of life and marriage. 
Physiology and the obligations and ends of married life. The 
school is carried on under the management of competent lady and 
gentlemen instructors. Thus is alforded an opportunity for young 
men and women, who ha^-e not had the advantages of a thor- 
ough grounding in this knowledge, in the elementary stages of 
education as is now furnished in the New Government, to thor-- 



EDUCATIOX AXD (T'LTUEE. 45 

ougliiy inform themselves on this important relation in life. 

Here lies the foundation trouble of ill advised and ill timed 
marriages, unhappiness in married life, divorces, etc., wliich can 
b}' these aids be happily averted to a large extent. In these 
course of study examinations and advices, rational Pvsychology, 
Astrology, Phrenology, Astrological Physiology, and kindred 
»s{ iences are made to contribute their information for the stud- 
ents welfare. There are also lectures from time to lime by dis- 
tinguished persons on all manner of subjects. 



THE I)EPAliT:MEXT OF CLASS SCHOOL CULTUEE. 

This department is under the Minister of Instruction and im- 
mediate professors and teachers in council. 

It has two general divisions. The first consists of classes in 
English, French, German and Spanish, bookkeeping, stenogra- 
phy, tyi^e\mting and penmanship, sociology. Civil iTOvernment. 
sewing, cooking, etc. In the second, there are classes in pliysical 
culture, elocution, oratory and acting; music, — vocal, instru- 
mental and orchestral training: painting and sculpturing. Each 
of these classes are graded and under competent teachers. 

When a certain standard is reached in the fine arts, the pui)il 
is permitted to take part in public ])erformances. and receive a 
certain com])ensation, according to ability and demand. Upon 
graduating from this department the pupil is entitled to enter the 
College of Arts. 

Concerts, musicals and performances are given periodically, 
1o the public, for the benefit of the scliools, by the different 
classes. 

The length of sessions and number per week or month is 
limited to the funds of the Treasury of this department. 



46 THE N^EW GOVEROIEKT, 

^JMIE DEPARTMENT OF SUNDAY TRAINING SCHOOL, 
This department is under the supervision of the Minister ol 
Instruction and has its Superintendent^ Teachers and Officers. 
The exercises consist in orchestral music and general song ser- 
vice, devotions and class study in the simple text and ethicai 
teaching of the Scriptures and all relative truth in history, sci- 
ence and philosophy, relieved by physical culture and other ex- 
ercises. No sectarian teaching is permitted. Books, papers^ 
periodicals, and special studies are prepared^ suitable to the need^ 
of its members. 

The officers and teachers receive a compen^tion for faithful 
service. 



DEPARTMENT OE PREPARATORY TRAINING AND 
EDUCATION. 

This department is under the supervision of the Minister of 
Instruction and management of teachers^ in eounciL 

The purpose of this department is to carry on a preparatory 
work of training nurses for the nurseries, and teachers for the 
kindergarten and kindergarten work. These teachers and 
nurses are graduated for actual service. 

This work is carried on generally in ward branches, in suit- 
able buildings. Here are arranged nursery rooms, eating 
rooms, preparatory, primary and advanced kindergarten rooms, 
from which the child is graduated to the public educational de- 
partments: also training rooms for nurses and teachers. 

Targe baby carriages are employed to carr}' to and fro 
babies; the nurses go in pairs and have charge of three to six 
babies; they have constant charge, at Avill of mothers, during 
the specified hours; take them to and from home. In this way 
the mother is relieved of much trouble and care. 



EDUCWTIOX AXD CULTUEE. 47 

Each teacher in the kindergarten rooms has charge of a 
limited number of children, so that each chikl's disposition, na- 
mi-e and propensities can be and is made a special study by the 
teacher, who has been previously taught and educated to read 
a child, and know precisely what to do, to cultivate the good and 
crush out the evil. 

There a-re employed in the training rooms, skilled instrue- 
ors, who are not only able to give instruction in the mechanics 
of c]iil(l-training, but to educate the teacher to become an apt 
student of human nature and thus be able to supply the needs 
of the child. In such a course of study all that the sciences of 
Astrology, Psychology, Phrenology and Physiology, etc., can offer 
is utilized. 

'I'he teachers liave in charge not more than from six to a 
('ozen cliildren; are re([uired to see them on their way to and 
from school, to visit them in their homes, study their associates, 
and become familiar with their parents and learn their habits. 
In this way a thorough supervision is had over the child in its 
early moral and spiritual training; and as the same constant su- 
pervision is had over the boy and girl through all the varied de- 
l)artments and courses of study until they have reached man- 
hood and womanhood, highly developed physical, moral, in- 
t(^l1ectual and spiritual men and women are the result. 



])epapt:\iext ov public education. 

'I'll is de])artment is under the super\nsion of the Minister of 
Education and Management of the Eegents of the ITniversit)' of 
The Xew Government. 

Here, little general work is done until the Municipal Govern- 
ment mero-es into the Xew Government; then it is that elaborate 



48 TFfE NEW GOYERNMEN-T. 

systems are carried into effect to furnish a complete and thorough 
practical, as well as theoretical, training, for the active pursuits 
of life, together with new methods of reform and cure, by reform- 
ative and curative systems of education in Industrial Schools, 
lieformatories. Prisons, Asylums, Humane Courts, etc. 

Each Local Government has its own Normal, Mechanical 
and Art CJollege and University Schools. 

In the Primary and Grammar Schools the pupils are graded 
and classed in many small departments. No teacher has more 
than a dozen pupils in charge. Systems of ethical training are 
perfected. Each child in its earlier and later courses of studies is 
taught to know self. Individuality and character are aimed at. 
The intuitive and perceptive faculties are developed to a high 
degree by the applied advanced methods of tuition. 

Teachers fall in to the grades and classes they are naturally 
fitted and adapted for, having received a thorough preparation 
in the Normal College, all the auxilliary sciences we have 
mentioned contributing to furnish a knowledge of human nature. 
The teacher thus armed is prepared to deal wisely and thorough- 
ly with each child, having but a few in charge, studies them in 
their play, their associations, their home and habits. Thus the en- 
vironments of the child are determined until maturity. 

It will be seen, that each child passing from the cradle to 
maturity, comes under the instruction and personal influence of 
very many teachers, all adepts in their particular branch; all 
working with concerted purpose, recognizing, and taught to rec- 
:-gnize, that the development of the moral and spiritual char- 
acter of the pupil determines the destiny of the man or woman, 
and of the nation; and to this end each teacher constantly ap- 
peals by his or her method and course of study and pradice, to 
all that is noble in the pupil. 



EDUCATION A^'D CULTUl^E. 49 

KEADIXG AXD LIBEAEY DEPAETMEXT. 

This department is under the management of a Secretary 
and other officials. 

Each centre has a Liljrary and Eeading rooms. 

These Libraries are as extensive as consistent with the de- 
i!iands and condition of the Treasury. 



MUSEUM DEPAETMEXT. 

Museums as far as practicable are established in every centre, 
so that every citizen may have conveniently at hand for study 
and information these repositories of natural and art curiosities, 
not omitting human anatomy in every stage of progress, life and 
condition, as well as prepared specimens and charts illustrating 
the discoveries in every department of scientific research. 



DEPAETMEXT OF AMUSEMEXTS. 

This department is under a Director of Amusements. 
Every centre is equipped with these places of amusements, more 
or less extensive according to the needs. 

There are gymnasiums, bath houses, swimming tanks, bil- 
liard and other sporting rooms. Fields and yards where out-door 
sports and games can be enjoyed. 

From these centres, picnics, outings, camping, boating, 
touring expeditions and excursions are planned and arranged for. 

DEPAETMEXT OF PUBLIC EXTEETAIXMEXT. 

This department is under the management of a Director in 
Chief. 

These entertainments consist of theaters, operas, concerts 



50 THE iSTEW GOVERNMENT. 

and public performances of ever}^ kind, all conforming to higli 
grade character. 

As tlie human mind has ever desired amusement and recre- 
ation, and the order is Divine^ so the brain of man is endowed 
with these faculties of creating diversion. 

The New Government recognizing this principle, and in 
keeping with (Fundamental Law 2) provides for the erection 
and maintenance of splendid theatre, opera and concert halls 
and s^^stems of cultivation and management, whereby the genius 
of its citizens may have full scope. Every pains are taken for 
the cultivation and development of high class art. (Fundament- 
al Law 5, 8, and 9) are observed as in all other departments. 

The citizens have the privilege of enjoying first class perfom- 
ances at a nominal cost. 



MEMBERSHIP AND PRINCIPLES. 

Anj^ person is entitled to become a member of this depart- 
ment and enjoy all its advantages, by subscribing to its principle^ 
as appended, and by-laws as prescribed by law, and paying a 
monthly fee of $1; this continues until changed by law. The 
fee of $1 per month together with such contributions as will be 
made from time to time and appropriations by the House en- 
ables many features of the work to be introduced at an early 
stage, gradually assuming proportions as the Treasury fund in- 
creases, until the department opens out in full operation. 



EDUCATIOX AXl) (IM.TURE. 51 

PIUXCIPLES. 

WE PERCEIVE 

1. — Tlie One All-Wise^ Eternal source of life. Infinite Father 

of All. 
2. — The Unity of Man. 
'^. — Justice tlie Eternal Law of Life. 
4. — Love, the Ixnling Spirit of Divine Life, the Motive of Every 

True Action. 
""j. — The Equal Eights of All. 

(3. — Happiness follows Harmony and is the Summit of Existence. 
7— The Perfect Man the End of all Etfort. 
8 — Eternal Yio-ilance the Price of Life. 



DEDICATED 

To my Anoel ^lother. who, in the richness. and love of thy nature, 
hath constantly inspired me with desire for the highest blessings 
and good of mv fellow creatures. THE AUTHOR. 



Entered and registered in the Department of Publication in 
TIk.^ New Government State Capitol, San Francisco, May 23, 
1038 for Helen Lenore King. 



Introduction. 

Lest some reader inioiit fail to understand the system of "The 
Niew Government'', set forth in Book I., or fail to see how such a 
p'eat institution conld be started, and how it would operate to 
bring about the results indicated: I have written the story of its 
coinception, organization, operation and growth during a period 
of forty years, and extending on. 

I have not overdrawn upon the imagination, nor presented im- 
possibilities, nor unnatura] conditions, but rather, have followed 
in natural and logical order, step by step to veritable sequences. 

THE AUTHOE. 



Book 2. 
The Story of the New Qovernment, 



CHAPTER T. 



THE CONCEPTIOX OF THE NEW GOVEEXMEXT. 

The Muse of Inspiration — A Chapter from the Author's Life — He 
Loses Health, Money and Friends — His Poverty — The Curse of Com- 
petition—The Troublous Times of 1895. 189(5 and 1897— He Writes 
the System of the New (Tovernment— Poinds the Darkness Lifted— 
Controls a Printing Orfice. 

I had just finisbed my mid-day meal and had sat me down 
at tny accustomed place near the open window, facing the West. 
It was a beautiful May day for San Francisco. 

For some purpose I arose and walked across the room, my 
eyes fell upon the figure of an old man. I drew near and gazed 
upon him. A form well erect; eyes bright and lighted with a 
peculiar lustre; hair silvery white; forehead and cheeks lined 
with deep wrinkles, which told of cares and sorrows in earlier 
years. I had seen that figure oft; there was no mistaking it. I 
had been with it for four-score years to a day. "What changes," 
I muttered, as T continued to gaze, "and soon the greatest and 
beist of all. 1 mast take one last long look at the form I cared for 
so wieW through all these years, for, with the sombre shadows of 
the evening, I shall wrap the mantle of my departure around my 
spirit form and make my exit through the curtained veil of 
mortal life." "Art thou satisfied," I asked and the answer came: 
"Yes, I am satisfied." "'Twas not always so," I went on, "in the 
years of troublous and harassing times, di'scontent, resentment, 



56 THE STOliY OF THE NEW GOVERXmeNT. 

clis'ap'pointment, sorrow, doubt aaid fear were thy companions, 
and now/'thon art satisfied: 'tis A^^ell. N"ow must I part from thee 
forever; thou hast served me faithfully; thou goest downward to 
thy long home forever more, to rest — Fare thee well." * * 
Again, I sat me down' to ponder, a shadow flitted o'er /the desk, 
and faintly whispering in mine ear, a voice, "Who art thou?" I 
made question. The answer cam.e, "'who stands hy when the pen 
is wet, and inspiration lends, to write the ])ast?" "Thou art then 
the Muse of History; what would 'st thou have me write?" "What 
knowest thou best?" "That which my eyes and ears have seen 
and heard; that knoweth I best." "Thou hast well said, write. 
Oft, as I have guided the pen, 'twas bathed in tears, as the sor- 
rows and the w^oes of mortal suffering were recorded on History's 
page through years, but now, my face is set in smiles, for to this 
people, happiness hath come and chased aiway the miseries of by- 
gone days, and as thou writest, the pages shall be filled with 
brightness. Write no caustic words for those who seem to de- 
serve, for )all their deeds are done in ignorance. Age and ex- 
perience hath ripened thy soul and made it beam with blessings 
upon those wdio curse; thou canst well pity all, for thou hasi 
learned in heaven within thyself to dwell." 

Beside a grape vine, on a sunny slope of my home, in one 
of California's beautiful spots, in 1887, I was aroused from my 
lethargy. I had given up, the hardships and obstacles were too 
great to surmount. Henceforth I would take life easy and drop 
out at the end, and in the next world I would find things more 
favorable. "How do you know," came the voice of reason, "you 
will never find it easier to begin the work of carving out your 
destiny of true manhood and happiness, than now; but if you 
shirk, each succeeding year of life and age will find you farther 
removed from the summit of life, and the difficulties ever in- 



roxcKP'riox of thk xew (Ioyet?x:\[kxt. 57 

creasing, and tlie i^^jues of your life ever diminishino-.'" I was 
more a|)])alled at the unquestionable fact which now stared me 
in the face, tlian 1 liad been at the hardships wliieh had dis- 
couraged me. Tb.ere were only two ways for me to choose; re- 
main in my indifference and selfish ease and die a traitor to the 
noblest impulses of my being, and tlius fail in tlie great end of 
my creation, viz.: an exalted character, tried and true, divine in 
life and ultimaitely su])remely happy because of such attainment, 
or |)lunge in to the dark floods again, for they were very dark, 
and be a man, reach my true end or die in the attem]3t. For hours 
I tried to reason my esca])e from the ordeal, bnt the Angel pre- 
vailed. I finally said, summoning all the power of my being — J 
will. .Then it was that the true nian was born within me. For 
two yciars before and several years after, for a period of ten years, 
r was not al)le to read, all told, above a goodly-sized volume. I 
suflered much. For years I was tempted to curse everything 
above and below, but the true man was master. All those years 
1 was in active ministerial life, also graduated from Theological 
Seminary, although, during the last year, I was considered to be 
■n advanced stages of consumption, yet I had determined to com- 
plete the course, and did. During this entire time my outside 
^tudies were obtained by proxy, the problems were worked out 
^\ith closed eyes. * * * One day, in the spring of 1890, 
while riding over the mountains on my parish field, my mind 
intent, u})on what, I can not remember, I had not previously 
given any special thought to the social problems, when suddenly 
there flashed upon my mind the great system of The Xew Gov- 
ernment, as 1 have outlined in the early work, in main, the same. 
I was delighted with the wonderful scope and possibilities of 
such a system which would reacJi in its operations to all the rami- 
fications of life. To introduce the system became the central 



58 THE STORY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT. 

thought of my existence. To this end I took up many new 
studies; I labored night and day. In the year '93 I completed 
^'The Great Picture of Human Life," a production involving 
much study. 'This representation will be found in a book of 
the same title later." The picture was ^^Tought out as a whole, 
and represents the combination of a series of ma'thematical dem- 
onstrations. It was transferred to canvass by two skilled artists, 
making an elaborate vrork of four large paintings, 11x15 feet in 
size, each, with several cartoons on the educational and social 
customs of the day. In the picture are shown the conditions 
of the individual as well as the human race, from the beginning 
to the end; the moral causes for these conditions, and their pro- 
cesses of operation and character. The psychic forces controlling 
human events are personified and made to appear in tragic 
drama; the evils and goods, conditions and causes, beginnings, 
progress and ultimate ends of human life, are all classified and 
arranged in their relative spheres, the whole represented by em- 
blem, symbol and allegory, concluding with a view of the ideal 
state of the world and mankind. This work I presented with 
dramatic effect in a series of four lecitiires, the whole intended 
as introductory to the system of The New Government as out- 
lined. About this time my health broke down under the great 
strain and for two years I passed through the flames of purgatory. 
I lost health, money, friends and everything. I, who alwa}^ had 
plenty to spare, was reduced almo'st to beggary. I envied the 
street-sweepers, the shoe-blacks, everybody who was earning a de- 
cent living. Those who remember the time, know how next to 
impossible it was to get a position. There were a hundred waiting 
for every vacancy which I might apply for and better able to fill. 
Down, under the street, in a smoky, gloomy cellar, I found the 
most menial service, but it kept me alive. On $12 a month I 



COXCEPTIOX OF THE XKAV GOVEEXMEXT. 59 

roomed, boarded and paid for my washing. I managed to k-^ep 
a respeetctble front, so those who knew me, thong-ht I had plenty 
of money. A fellow- workman, in the same cellar, commenting 
on my social and financial standing, for they both went together 
in those days, had a little joke at my expense. On one occasion 
he said, ''Well, I hear a couple of your friends got married the 
other day." I was surprised, for he seemed in earnest, as all my 
friends were dead, I thought, but wondering if it was possible 
I yet had any friends alive, 1 ventured to ask him, who they 
Vvcre, and he said. Miss Vanderbilt and the Marquis of Marl- 
borough. The full force of the joke was lost to him, but 1 got 
it. On another occasion he ^aid to me, 'T wish 1 had your money: 
1 wotdd be happy." I thought to myself, it would require very 
little to make him ha]jpy, and of the old saying, ''Ap])earances 
are oft times deceptive." 

The fact was he was earning $150 a month, I, $12.00, but I 
did not lot on. I learned this, that many whom we little sus- 
pect, oft times suffer most keenly rhe hardships of poverty. 
Sometimes, as I passed wearily over the streets, I would stop and 
gaze at the beantiful architecture of some palatial residence and 
would ask myself the questions. "Who am I? Have I not a 
body that could wear rich and handsome clothing and so asso- 
ciate with aaid receive the e.^teem of my fellows? Have I not a 
mouth and stomach that could enjoy delicious dainties and 
nourishing food? Have I not a nose, by which I might regale my- 
self with the odors of costly perfumes, or of variegated flowers in 
;• ^^'ell-kept conservatory? Have I not ears, whereby I might find 
delight in sweet strains of music of my own, or my family, or 
my friends' making, or of talented artists from abroad? Have I 
not eyes, through which my sool could drink in pleasure from 
the elegance of rich apartments, magnificent adornment, splen- 



6o THE STORY OF THE NEW (UiVERNMENT. 

ciid grounds and scenes in traveE? Have I not a social side to my 
nature, by wiiich I might cultivate the so'cieit)^ of the cultured 
and intellectual and enjoy the friendship of friends?" It was- 
true, 1 had all these senses, but the other things I had not. Why 
so many had all these things, and myself and so many more did 
not have them. I found myself hopelessly lost in trying to 
understand; then I would try to comfort myself by looking on the 
inside. I thought about the skeletons in the closet; family dis- 
graces; disruptions of social ties; envies, jealousies and conteii- 
tions; the burden of indolence; satiated appetites; physical suiier- 
ings through over indulgence, and a hundred other evils; stilly 
I, with the many others, feit quite willing to risk ail th3se incon- 
veniences if we could only have the other things. Everywhere 
1 saw beauty, luxury and culture on the one hand, and ill-fa\ror, 
])overty and ignorance on the other. My heart bled for the masses 
in their poverty and misery, but I was unable to help them. The 
n'cli needed not pity in their troubles, for was not their money 
their constant and best friend? As for myself, well, ] learned 
to take things philosophically. I knew this condition could not. 
last always, and I had constant hope of getting out, and, besides, 
I had faith in another life only a few years hence, in which ail 
ills, wrongs and rights would be perfectly adjusted by the laws of 
life and rectitude; this the masses of my fellow-suiferers had not, 
nor understood; therefore, 1 pitied them all the more. W^ell do I 
]'emember scenes of poverty, misery and crime, even yet they 
are graven on my mind. Old women with faces wrinkled and 
yellow like parchment, elad iri miserable arments, selling 
luatdhes or trinkets, for an existence, or gathering on the streets, 
bundles of old wood to warm their shriveled forms; men, repul- 
sive sights, doubled up, creeping on their knees, or hands and 
knees, legs gone, arms wanting, eyes out, noses missing, blotched 



roxr'KPiKjX ov Tin: xkav (lOViajXMEXT. 6i 

faces, bleared eyes, horrid sores, displaying their curses to ex- 
<ite pity and cliarity: human scavenoers. scraping up cigar 
stumps on tlie street, draining em])ty beer casks, gul])ing down 
l^ar-rooni slo])s, living on decaying refuse of the dump-heaps; 
miserable wi-etches, boys and girls, men and women, with eyes 
"watery and vacant, liollow cheeks, emaciated bodies, blasted 
minds and ruined souls, mingling and dwelling in the midst of 
vice and infamy in damnable dens of white and (liinese quarters; 
moral lejjers, al)andoned cJiarjicters, displaying theii- fast dying 
charms through show windows on public streets; vile places of 
<imusement, on jud^lic thoroughfai-es, luring the curious or silly 
j)assers-by with instruments of music and lewd ])icturcs: under- 
ground beer holes, where shameless women coaxed wanton fools 
to drink: open pool-rooms, where boys and men, and even girls, 
gathered in crowds to gamble on races; stock exchange, where 
men and women with nervous organisms and feverish brains 
bought and sold, lost and won, made fortunes and lost fortunes, 
and wrecked their lives. Families living in sttiffy apartments, 
<ible to earn but a scanty existence in the midst of sickness and 
deprivations. Great numbers of beautiful young women, driven 
in des])eration to sell their bodies. Kvery species of fraud, ad- 
vantage taken, op])ression of the weak. corru])tion in jud^lic af- 
fairs, sacrifice of the rights of the helpless, perversion of justice, 
the fierce struggle of competition, the care-worn anxious faces 
of many business men struggling against desperate odds to keej) 
thems:e*lves from sinking; the distressed and oftimes haggard 
countenances of women fighting for an existence for themselves 
and children; the mad struggle in times of public elections, and 
the clamorings for positions in the civil service, giving rise to all 
manner of intrigue and base methods, creating false systems of 
legislation and unstable government; the |)itiable spectacle of 



62 THE STORY OF THE XEAV GOVER^^MEK^T. 

those, driven to desperation through their poverty and pei^plexi'ty 
to insanity or the suicides' sad end; the ahnormal social condi- 
tions creating and fostering every species of crime of the most 
appalling nature. All these things the reader who lived in those 
days is familiar with. The newspaper teemed with the narrative 
of them daily; and yet who was to blame? Who was responsible 
foT siuch a state of -affairs? Plainly to the philosopher each one 
was resfponsible to the extent of his or her own individual 
acts, and the blame could not be foisted oai the 
Chief Executive or persons in high official positions. 
It was the tide of human affairs, in which each per- 
son floated helplessly along or had a hand in creating 
and sustaining. What each one did to contdnue such a con- 
dition was done through ignorance; for did the people really 
see and know that what they did for selfish ends, and adverse 
interests to their fellows, was only fastening the shackles upon 
their own liberty and depriving them of true happiness. All 
manner of remedies were prescribed: socialistic revolution, polit- 
ical reformation, philanthropic measures, religious reform and 
communistic systems, but the embarrassed and demoralized con- 
ditions continued to grow worse. Nearly all the nations of 
the world were involved in foreign and domestic troubles. Men 
began to preach the end of the world was at hand. Others, that 
prophecy of olden time pointed to the culmination of a great era 
in the world's history, which, indeed, was the case, as was shortly 
proved. 

Many will remember vividly the stirring events of 1895 and 
1896, the frightful murders, tidal waves, floods, fires, panics and 
tornadoes by which thousands lost their lives. The fearful mas- 
acre of hundreds of thousands of Arme'irians by the Turks, the 
South American rebellions, the Spanish and Cuban conflicts, 



COXCEPTIOX OF THE XEW (lOVERXMEXT. 63 

the South African and Egyptian wars, and ihe final cuhnination 
of the European conventions in 1897, after wliich the reaction, 
and with it the ushering in of a new era of peace and progress. 

But to return, finding near the close of 1895 my health much 
improved, after a long rest from brain work ,and careful treat- 
ment, I became again restless and ambitious for active public 
work, but found the ministry like all other callings, over-crowded. 
1 disoovered also, that miter one had been out of active public 
work, it was very difficult to agiivin get an entering. I was a 
member of Presbytery with the best of credentials, and had 
letters of recommendation from leading clergymen. 

One day I called upon a prominent minister of San Fran- 
cisco and desired him not to prevent my occupying a certain dis- 
trict in which there was no church of our denomination. I have 
not forgotten yet this interview; I had been advised that this min- 
i>'Ler had power, position and the control of money, and that it 
was well to consult him and have his favor. I was quickly and 
])olitely informed that he had already selected a young man for 
the plac-e. My heart fell, for I had bo]:)ed to do there, a good 
work. I then thought I would see if I could hope for the influence 
and favor in any other direction of this minister in high position, 
for alas, in those days the ministry was not free from favoritism 
and intrigue, no more than politics, but although I questioned 
him and searched his soul for encouragement and brotherly love, 
yet not one ray of sympathy came to cheer my weighted spirit. 
T turned from his handsome residence with a heavy heart. I 
could scarce repress the tears of discouragement in the midst of 
the hard lines which encompassed me. This minister was in an 
honored and high position, surrounded with luxury and many 
friends. I, with no mean gifts, wandered in desolation and ob- 



64 THE STORY OF THE NEAA" GOYEIiXMEXT. 

scarity, although, indeed, in my nnliappiness I found a few 
good friends whose kindness I shall never forget. 

He had a salary of between $8,000 and $10,000 a year. I strug- 
gled to earn $12.00 a month. Upon our interview he had just 
finished a bountiful repast, and the full blood of a generous diet 
floweid freely through his veins; I had niiade a meal of two or 
three handfuls of raw wheat, eaten as I walked on the street. I 
had learned to make many a meal of the same. His family sat 
down daily to a full board; mine,to scanty fare. The contrast 
was hard to bear, yet best of all, I had no unkind thought 
toward him. I knew he could not understand the situation; how 
could he? He had probably never tasted the bitter side of life. 
His surroundings, like all other wealthy persons, were such as 
prevented him knowing the sorrows of his unfortunate fellows. 
I did not complain, for my heart was being softened, mellowed, 
enriched with sympathy and love for humanity. The fire of ad- 
versity was burning out the dross of selfishness and neglect for 
the needs of mankind. I was brought very close to the poor and 
depraved conditions of human beings. I was forced to eat be- 
side persons whose vile and abandoned moral characters smelted 
of the fumes of the lowest hell. What need to wait until after 
death, for a hell? Those persons lived in the very depths of hell 
here, wandering in the thick darkness of existence and cursing 
the very God who gave them being, until all semblance of His 
image was blotted out from their souls — and these creatures, the 
off-spring of demoralized social conditions. Did I not see from 
the inside, the fearful need of a revolution in social affairs. Did 
I not know also, that many a noble heart beating within the 
covering of silk or broadcloth would pour out generous lives of 
devotion, if they could but realize their relations and responsi- 
bility and needs of their fellows, and the abnormal state of social 



rOXCEPTlOX OF THE XEW GOVEEXMEXT. 65 

life which drove the unfortunates clown to perdition. And, in- 
deed, it is a pleasure to reflect, that there were many beautiful 
s])irits of both sexes in societies organized for the relief and care 
of sick and destitute families, both in the Protestant and Eoman 
Catholic religions, who cared for the needy in their districts, 
irrespective of religion. ^ly heart yearned to lift the burdens 
from ^veighted souls. I chafed under the restraint of my prison 
bars. I heard discontent, complaining, discouragement and 
despair on every side in ni}^ business intercourse. Large busi- 
ness houses and small, men manfully struggled against the curse 
of fierce competition. Competition Avas once said with glee, to 
be the life of trade, but it had now become an unmerciful tyrant 
which let up neither night nor day, but goaded its victims on in 
sheer desperation to plunder each other mercilessly. Prices 
were cut to the bottom notch, house vied with house, firm with 
firm, and individual with individual, to force each other to the 
wall in the fierce scramble for existence. Money was housed in 
banks; peojile feared to loan or invest; plenty of money; great 
resources; abundance of everything in the country, but those 
who needed, could not get it. People railed against Govern- 
ment and the ])olitical party in power. They hoped at each 
change of party that times would be better, but things continued 
to grow worse. The working people sought to adjust matters 
by unions and strikes, but capital prevailed and business stag- 
nated. The poor man longed for a revolution — war — blood — 
anything, to give respite from the long reign of hardship. It 
seemed possible that the ominous words of a then eminent writer 
would be fulfilled, in which he said, that "unless conditions 
changed there would come a reign of terror in the United States, 
which would beggar scenes in the great French revolution." 
I felt that the gathering evils which threatened our country, 



66 THE STOKY OF THE NFAV GOVERNMENT. ' 

peace and people, might yet be averted if The New Government 
could once be established. The pressing hour of its need had 
come. Was it not for such a time I had toiled and waited for 
six years? But my hands were tied. What could I do? Nothing. 
The days and weeks and months sped qnickly away and none too 
rapidly for me. Time seemed of little value to me then. I was 
alone in the world and in the midst of multitudes of people. This 
may seem strange to some. I dwelt in a prison as real as if it 
had iron doors and bars. Here is to the one with wisdom. 

At last came the inspiration — Avrite The New Government and 
give it to the world. I determined to do it, but how should 
I ever get it published, for to do this cost much money in those 
days; but I felt assured I should get it published somehow, so I 
set to work to write, and now what a change in my life and mind. 

Time, as before, sped on as fast. 

But now I fain would stay its rapid flight 
For purposes anew displaced the past 

And gave each passing hour new life and light. 

I had not half finished, when the thick veil of darkness around 
me was parted, and a helping hand w^as extended, but this came, 
only after I had made, to me, a great sacrifice. Like Abraham 
of old, T was called upon to ofl'er up my first born son, viz. : My 
dearest wish and delight, it was my last treasure. I thrust the 
knife into his quivering body, when lo! the way to the end ap- 
peared. 

I learned this lesson, that the greatest blessing comes, when 
the greatest sacrifice has been made. I soon found myself in 
control of a Printing establishment, which I named "The '9G 
Printing and Publishing House," and then I knew why I had 
served as a printer's devil under the street at three dollars a 
week. Strange, the bitter experience which come to all in the 



PUBLICATION^ OF TIIF. XKW GOVERNMENT. 67 

rotiTse of life; happy is the one who learns to bear them 
patiently and finds the good in each, and when they are all com- 
plete, for each particular one is needed, then that soul will 
have a character with virtues well replete. At last the book 
was finished, not, howe^^r, without encountering a multitude of 
obstacles and much hardshi]). Tlie system of The New Govern- 
ment was to be oriven to tlie r)ub]ic. 



CHAPTEE II. 



THE PUBLICATION OF THE NEW GOTERN]\rENT. 

Newspaper Comments — How the System was Received by the Ma^;- 
ses — Advei-se Criticisms — T^\ivorn})le Impressions-Fears of the Clergy- 
The Key to the Situation — The A'erdiot of Intelligence. 



From the first announcement of the publication of the book 
it was eagerly sought for and read with the most absorbing in- 
terest. Those of my friends who knew somevrhat of the chai-- 
acter of the system were well pleased; to the public it was new, 
something so entirely different from anything it had previously 
been acquainted with that it fell upon it like all new things to 
weigh it in the balances of judgment. Some of the newspaper 
comments were very lenient, giving it all the "credit due, for its 
originality and ingenuity," but "that it was too vast a system 
and too complicated for practical working, that all social and 
industrial and religious affairs as this system involved would 
be impossible to nationalize; that while it set out with clean 
workings and intent, would in a very short time become as cor- 
rupt as the then present system of Government; that there could 
not be found men or women qualified with such a diversified 
knowledge as would be required of them to fill the important 



68 THE STOEY OF TPlF KEAY GOVERK^MEKT. 

positions, as superintending a large number of businesses, that 
co-operation had never succeeded and never would; that it had 
been the history of G'overnment enterprises that it could not 
compete with priA^ate capital; that it would be impassible to con- 
trol lands and the great corporate enterprises. That religion 
had always been the curse of the Vv^orld, and that it would be 
simply folly to think of embodying it in a Governmental sys- 
tem," which, I might here say, had never been hinted at, ''that 
it was a beautifully wrought out and promising theory, but ut- 
terly impracticable.-'^ Other papers took a careful siand and held^ 
"That all the methods embraced in the system were old and 
well tried in some form or other in different parts of the world; 
that the question, of the practicable nationalization of the great 
enterprises was beyond a doubt; volumes had been written; 
some of the most able exponents had advocated and demon- 
strated the practicability of such measures in this country, which 
had actually been carried out along similar lines in different 
parts of Europe; that the People's Party, Populists, Socialistic 
Party and other reform bodies had in their respective platforms 
and continuously demanded for years just such me;isures at; 
were set forth in the system, and that these parties had made 
themselves so powerfully felt that the old political parties had 
been obliged to lend an ear and appease their clamorings by 
concessions; that sooner or later the public must take control of 
its own affairs and manage them: that the system as set forth in 
The 'New Government has been carefully wrought out and, in- 
deed, offers the key to the way of a true Democratic Govern- 
ment, and that if it could be once established and in working 
order, it would most certainly solve the perplexing problems of 
our day." The organs of many of the reform parties welcomed 
the book as an excellent educator, "but declared that by no means 



PUBLICATION OF THE XEAY OOVERXMEXT. 69 

was it possible b}^ tlie method set forth in the s^'stem, to arrive at 
the same conclusion and condition of social and industrial life, 
which they themselves advocated; such an ideal state could only 
be realized through special legislation by their particular party 
in power," they affirmed. It was difficult for a novice to know to 
which party to ailay himself. Each one belittled or ridiculed 
the other, and exalted its platform as the panacea for all na- 
tional disorders. The book was denounced by the conservatives 
of the old Republican and Democratic parties, who had for a 
long time worshipped at the shrine of their fathers' and grand- 
fathers political faith; each one affirmed ''that his grand old 
13arty had been the trusty helm which had steered tlie 
mighty ship of State from its stormy cradle to its present 
glory, power and magnificence. "All that is necessary," 
they declared, "is a little re-adiustment of the Tariff question or 
change in the monetary system and clean independent repre- 
sentation. Who is this," they said, "that comes to bury our 
patriotism and sprinkle the dust of obliAdon on our beloved flag 
and seek to make us an unknown factor in the common brother- 
hood of international life? To rob us of the emoluments of of- 
fice, which we long have held and still hope to hold, and make 
us one with the same common chance wdth the common poor 
man?" They called the author of the system "another crank 
who has popped up with a fresh prescription to right the disor- 
ders of mankind, which disorder lay principally in his own 
mind." They classified the Author with one of the family of 
anarchists who thought the country was going to ruin and 
sought to avert it by crying— revolution. Some of the radical 
free-thinkers and reformers condemned the book because it w\as 
too mild and weak in its policv: a far-fetched theory; a one-man's 
idea, and that the whole matter smacks of churchianitv. for two 



70 THl^ .^TORY OF THK K:P.\V GOVERKMEN'T. 

reasons, the Author is a Minister and the System embraces- 
Sunday schools and Spiritual teaching, etc. 

Prohibitionists found fault with the book because it did not 
advocate the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of all 
spirituous liquors, but rather encouraged it by classifying Hquor 
with all other commodities and treating it in the same manner„ 
that is. the absence of incentive to gain by the sale of it, and the 
most rigorous inspection as to purity and freedom of use according 
to demands of educated and disciplined minds, sound bodies^ 
normal appetites, refined and cultured associations and spiritual 
influence and environments. Many of my Ministerial Brethren 
treated the book with kindly criticism. They said, the Author^ 
like all inventors of schemes and machines, was over sanguine; 
that it was of a like character to all other Utopian systems de- 
vised for the purpose of re-modelling society. They came up like 
Jonah's gourd in a night and vanished in a day; that it was a 
fallacy to suppose that any man-made system could change the 
morally depraved nature of a man; that the writer ought to know, 
being educated in the schools of orthodoxy, that nothing but re- 
generation of the heart by faith in Jesus Christ could change the 
nature and life of man, and hence reform, purify and redeem 
society; that the system in its avowed policy, tended to extreme 
liberalism, by introducing one universal school of ethical educa- 
tion, which if carried out successfully would corrupt orthodox 
teaching, land the churches into materialism, cripple denomina- 
tional interest and destroy every religious body, sparing neither 
Protestant, C/atholic nor Jew; that the church was the Divinely 
appointed means in the providence of God to preserve and declare 
the truth through all time to the condemnation or salvation of 
individuals until the Lord came, and that it was dangerous and 
disastrous to trust for a moment to any ethical svstem which ex- 



PUBLICATIOX OF THE XLW (40VERX]^IEXT. 71 

alted itself over the church and assumed her functions to g-uide 
men into all truth and righteousness." 

Others of the cleroy, lx)th Catholic, Protestant and Jewish, — 
liberal, advanced. ])r()g]-essive and spiritual, hailed the hook as 
furnishing the true solution of the long vexed question in the 
past of church and State and the key to the pressing problem of 
ap])lied ])rinci])les of Christianitv to the social and industrial 
]ieeds of the people; that this system once in operation would 
heal all breaches between i-eligious bodies, annihilate all creeds 
and bring all to one common basis and practice of the simple 
])]'inciples in the teachings of the Scriptures. Corporation mag- 
luites and capitalists, pooh poohed at the idea; the large business 
houses said they guessed they were safe for a while; the small 
business man saw the dawning of liberty from the iron heel of 
competition which had nearly strangled his business and life, the 
])rofessional, artisan, tradesman and tradeswoman beheld the 
(>pen door to wide fields of employment; the poor man rejoiced, 
for visions of plenty and happiness passed before his famished 
<:aze; the distressed, sorrow-stricken and despairing, felt new life 
thrill within their being; the aspiring student took fresh courage 
for he perceived unlimited opportunities for the throbbing genius 
within, upon the horizon of the domain of The Xew Government; 
the struggling poor boy and girl who longed for an education and 
culture at last believed their fond dreams and hopes -svere likely 
I0 be realized. So it was that each approved or condemned, re- 
ceived or rejected according to their individual hopes or fears, 
or their intellectual progress or bondage to old ideas. The great 
variety of expressions of the public mind concerning the book, 
their hberality or ])rejudices, their intelligence or ignorance of 
])rinciples, illustrated most forcibly the diversified character of 
the training, education or non-education which gave birth to 



72 THE STORY OF THE '^F:^ GOVERNMENT. 

such criticisms. The student could readily perceive that so long 
as these diversified schools or non-schools of training or educa- 
tion continued to exist, that just so long would people mingle 
together with adverse views destructive of common interest and 
so defeat the great end which each one, zealous in his or her faith, 
sought to bring about. Clearly at last, the thoughtful mind saw, 
that the true solution of the differences of mankind lay, in a one 
universal school of training, with the same common system, the 
same common hopes, and the same common end. 

The arguments of intelligence prevailed; many believed it was 
possible to carry out the system, and began seriously to think of 
organization. Great numbers of the people received the idea with 
enthusiasm, glad to adopt anything which promised relief from 
tbeir embarrassed and distressed conditions, but it v/as felt that 
ihe time for organization had not yet come, until after a more 
careful preparation of the way, by means of public meetings, so 
this led to the opening of the first New Government Hall of Edu- 
cation and Culture. 



CHAPTER III. 



FIRST NEW GOVERNMENT HALL OF EDUCATION AND 

CULTURE. 

The Work Opened— Character of Meetings— Eclectic School of Di- 
vine Philosophy — Sunday Training School — Opening of Class Culture 
School— Money Needed —How Obtained— Tailor Shop Opened— Dress 
Making Shop Started — Meeting Called to Organize the New Government. 



For long I had looked forward to the • establishment 
of the first Hall of Education. The publication of the book 
brought me an introduction to many noble hearted men and 
women, who not only favored the Institution with their influence 



FIPtST HALL OF EDUCATION AXD CULTURE. 73 

and personal assistance, but contributed liberally towards its es- 
tablishment. These warm-hearted friends and devoted support- 
ers of this Divine work, live in my cherished memory to this 
hour. A suitable and commodious building was secured and the 
work was o])ened under favorable circumstances. The ''Ladies' 
Saturday Mornino- Orchestra," and some of the leading male 
choruses, contributed most generously their services, until ar- 
rangements were made for the establishment of a permanent 
chorus and orchestra. 

P'rom the first our meetings were crowded. The song ser- 
vice was received with, the most marked appreciation. The lec- 
tures were simple ex])ositions of Divine truth as manifest in all 
life and applied to all life. There was a happy informality in the 
services which made all comfortable. The prayers were tlie 
sim})le expressed utterances of the heart seeking wisdom and 
truth from the Infinite source of all life and knowledge. Spirit- 
ual light ]]ervaded int(^llect and heart and guided reason. There 
was a feeling of reverence to the cause of truth. The services 
were instructive, insi)iring and enobling. Those who had for 
years absented themselves from churches, found in these meet- 
ings that which ap})ealed to the man within, and they responded. 
Those who were devout attendants upon churches, found here 
substantial food for intellect and soul. The rights and condi- 
tions of all were considered and respected. The soul of one was 
i-ecognized as possessing a character Divine as that of another. 
The great and constant etfort was, t-o cause each individual to 
discover his soul and let it rule him. The truth, that the soul of 
one is (lodlike as the soul of another, appeared in a new light. 
Many who were cast down, discouraged, and had ceased to strug- 
gle against the odds, and were drifting with the tide anywhere, 
nowhere, were startled to think that it was possible for them to 



74 THE STORY OF THE NEW GOYERXMEN"T. 

be good, true, honorable, pure in character and happy. The 
teaching that the right use of all the blessings and hardships of 
life, opened the door to peace and heaven within, and harmony 
without, though not ne^r, seemed so simple and so rational that 
great numbers of people who could not understand before, began 
to learn the laws of life and the secret of happiness. 

Arrangements were ni'ade with talented, progressive, liberal 
and spiritual speakers of both sexes, to discourse from time to 
time on all important topics. 

An Eclectic School of Divine Philosophy was carried on Sun- 
day afternoons. All questions pertaining to the high interests 
of man were discussed. Due deference was paid to the opinions 
and faith of all. The spiritual law was the rule of measurement, 
and love the governing principle. The school was conducted on 
the above principles and became a source of much enlightenment 
and education. 

In a short time a Sunday Training School was started and 
parents of all religious persuasions sent their children. A de- 
partment under competent tutelage was opened for the education 
and preparation of miale and female teachers of any age for the 
different grades of scholars. The course embraced studies in the 
Bible, Comparative Religions, Progressive History, Physiology, 
Psychology, select studies in the sciences and a prepared course in 
ethics. Upon completing the course of study, certificates were 
issued which entitled the holder to teach in the Training School, 
for which they received a remuneration, as did all the officials and 
other teachers. There were specially prepared handbooks of 
the above course of studies for the different grades of scholars. 
The sexes were taught separately in some classes and together in 
others. Each child was taught to know self and the moral obli- 
gations of sexhood. The studies were relieved by exercises in 



FIRST HALL OF EDUCATIOX AXD CULTURE. 75 

physical culture, discipline and music. There were o-raduated 
departments i'or voeal and orchestral training. 

The requirements and discipline of tJie school left no time 
for nonsense nor disorder. There was a deep, underlying, defi- 
nite object in all the methods of the school, and order, decorum 
and earnestness cJiaracterized the work. There was not a trace 
of sectarian teaching, the result of which was a uniting of the 
children in common interest and in turn the parents. 

It was not long before plans weve set on foot for the establish- 
ment of the ''Class C'ulture School." Arrangements were made 
with skilled professionals, male and feinale, and classes were 
started in music, vocal and instrumental, Physical Culture, Voice 
Culture, English, French, CJerman and Spanish, bookkeeping. 
Stenography, Ty])ewriting, Elocution, Oratory and Acting: classes 
in Ethics, Philosophy of Marriage, Sociology and Oi^dl Oovern- 
ment, etc. A membei-ship fee of $L00 a month, together with 
liberal gifts by many kind friends of the cause, enabled the work 
to be carried forward on a limited scale. Of course it required 
a considerable time to systematize and get in tlirough woi-king 
order as we have outlined. 

After all this, the vital question had not yet been reached, 
viz: the independent, creative and sustaining power of a body of 
j)eoi)le to perpetuate these benefits and blessings. There was a 
limit of gifts, a limit of ability to devote time, energy and a nomi- 
nal fee of $1.00 a month, even for such excellent advantaires. 
The Trustees required money for the increased demand made 
upon the Institution, for enlarged facilities, as well as gratuitous 
membership to those in poor circumstances who yearned for such 
jirivileges. 

So, long before the work had grown to the extent described, 
it became necessary to apply the ])rinciples upon which the Insti- 



76 THE STORY OF THE KEW GOVEROTiENT. 

tntion was based, to industrial life. Edncation, culture, amiTse- 
inent and recreation go liand in hand with industry. 

Work is written on the face of nature. Her brow drips 
with the sweat of toil. Her energies are manifest in the surging: 
of the elements. Her accumulations mark the labor of cen- 
turies. The beauty of her face, the variety lof her productions^ 
tell the story of her ceaseless efforts. So the brain of man 
works best when the hands have learned to labor. Sleep w 
sweet when the body is weary. Recreation is only enjoyed after 
hours of toil. Amnsements have a zest when work is inter- 
spersed. Man^s being throbs with energy. This energy makes 
for him life or death, according to its use. He who says man 
was not made to work, knows not whereof he speaks. 

Industry, then, ever draws from the founitain, the waters of 
life. To direct industry, to watch over her efforts, to increase 
her power, to utilize tier energies, to economize <her stares and en- 
joy her production, was the problem with which generations had 
wrestled. This was the problem The New Cxovernment haid set 
out iQ solve. The time had come to apply some of the theories 
of this educational system to practical life, but how? How- 
should fundamental laws 'I, J^ and 5 be observed? We had no 
Government yet. but clearly there Avere people, energies and re- 
sources within the influence 'of the force already at work.' Ere 
perfect faith could be commanded in the system of The New 
Government, it must first be demonstrated by practical work- 
ings, even before its organization. This was what we had amtici- 
pated, hence the preparatnrv work by The New Government Hall 
of Education. The proposition was, given natural gifts, time and 
energy on the one hand, and naturnl resources on the other, lio .v 
to obtain money, to utilize and develop all? 

W^here should we begin? Anywhere, that required little ex- 



FIRST HALL OF EDUCATION AXB CULTUEE. 77 

pense, sui>pliefl clemanrls and rptiirnpcl profits. So we opened a 
Tiiodest little taik)v shop in a central place. We soon found a 
tailor after tlip requirements of Law 9 and workinp: according to 
Law 7. Yon would naiturally ask: Why heo-in with a tailor 
shop? Well, for two or three reasons. Tailors had always got 
j]:ood prices for custom-made clothing and many continued to get 
^ood prices, although a few houses werp opened which cut prices 
very low, comparatively: still with a considerable margin of profits 
or they would not have continued doi-ng business. Now, then, 
we saw that if it was possible for these tailoring houses to make 
money without assured j^atronage, that The Xew Government 
Tailor House, run econouiica'lly. with assured patronflge. would 
yield good returns, which could be expended in enlarging the 
"business •and opening \\\i new 'de])artments of work. Again, 
ready-made clothing never gave good satisfaction, especially 
since the depression of trade which caused the flooding of the 
market with inferior goods at cheap rates, furnished at the sacri- 
fice of health and life of the poor toilers of the Eas^t. To buy 
such clothing was a waste of money, but how weiT many able to 
obtain custom-made clothing at high rates and little opportunity 
for earning the same? Clearly, a custom-made suit of clothes 
would fit better, last much longer and save the wearer money in 
the end. In opening the tailoring house then there were three 
objects: First, to make a profit to be expended in furnishing 
employment to as many as possible at liberal wages; second, 
to turn out guaranteed clothing at the least possible 
cost to all who wished to avail themselves of the opportunity, 
and third, to drive out all cheap commodities, illegitimate busi- 
ness and cheap labor. As will be seen, it did not require much 
argument to persuade people to better themselves and their con- 
ditions. All the gentlemen connected with the work so far, of 



yS THE STOBY OF TIIK TsVM GOVERKMEXT. 

course, aofreed to have their next suit of clothes made at the 
Govemment tailors, and not a few ordered suits within a few 
davs after the sluo]) was o])ened. We set to work systematically 
on a sound, business basis. AiTaiigements were made with a 
wholesale house for o-oods. Young gentlemen and ladies were' 
em])loyed to solicit jjatrouage. In a short time the business was 
well advertised and orders began to come in on all sides. Every- 
, body who knew the character of the work did all they could to* 
further it. The tailor in charge soon had more t^ban he could do. 
It became necessary to increase his help, and it was not long be- 
fore a dozen journeymen and apprentices were at work. All 
were satisfied. The employees received wages and worked ac- 
cording to Law 7. Every suit of clothes was stamped and guaran- 
teed. The transactions were cash and the treasury began to» 
swell. 

The ladies reasoned, why cannot we ladies have a "Govern- 
ment Dressmaking Plouse?" Plans were set on foot and a place 
opened on the same basis as the Tailoring House. A first-class 
dressmaker was ]daced in charge. The neiws having gone out^ 
orders came in thick and fast, and it was not long before a large 
force of workers was emjdoyed, and why not? Nothing but 
guaranteed goods were turned out. Satisfaction was given, al- 
though it had often been said "it was impossible to please a 
woman.'' Suits were obtained at much lower figures than had 
previously been paid. Soon there was a demand for a millinery 
department, and then a hat store was talked of. By this time 
there was more biisir^ess than one man could attend to, and it 
was apparent that the time had come for organization. A large 
number of peo])le who had hitherto been somewhat incliffcrert 
now began to manifest much interest. The enthusiasm of many 
carried the day, aud a meeting was called to organize The New 
Govern uient. 



OEGAXIZATIO:^ OF THE NEW GOVEEXMEXT. 79 
CHAPTER IV. 

ORGAXIZATTOX OF THE XEW GOYEEXMEXT. 

Opposition to tlie Move— Mpetinjrs for Organization — Three Hundrea 
Charter Members — Election of House of Business— New Departments 
Added — Only Members Employed — Twenty-five to Fifty Applications 
for Membership a Day — Department of Preparatory Training and 
Education Opened — me ^status of the New Government as Shown in 
the First Annual Report of the "Herald." 



Tlie work had been soniewliat retarded by the opposition 
and discouragement of Aome prominent ])ersons who strennomsly 
asserted "that the thino; would no*t work; that it mio:ht, if it did 
start, run a niontli or two and then collapse; that this had been 
the history of all eo-o]H^ratiYe moves; that the human race needed 
iimking over again; that a number of people never did agree and 
never could agree to work together harmoniously in a co-opera- 
tive system; that one man would want to boss it all, or that all 
would M'ant to be boss; that, money being involved, corruption 
would creep in and destroy the whole work." These objections 
and many others were indulged in by persons who persistently 
r(4'used to do anything. But I, with many others, had not lost 
faitli in tlie i:»ossible results of a national co-operation of intelli- 
gent people. We believed there was yet much good in the hu- 
mau family, and that if ever the human family was to reacli a 
liiglier plane of life as a ])eo])le, the human family must bring it 
about; that as all great achievements in the progress of the race 
had been the result of concerted action; therefore it was possible 
that a still greater achievement might be obtained, viz; the uni- 
versal governmeait of a people, by the people, in the name of 
I^ove, Justice and Equality of Eights, and that this could be 



8o THE STORY OF THE Ts''JlW GOVERNMENT. 

brought about by the rational, concerted and persistent co- 
operation of a body of determined intelligent people. 

Accordingly invitations were sent to a large number of per- 
sons to attend a meeting for the purpose of considering the or- 
ganization of The New Government. On the occasion of the 
first preliminary meeting many brilliant speeches by both ladies 
and gentlemen were made in favor of The New Government, as 
to what had been accomplished by its principles in the past, and 
what was possible in the future by the wise administration of the 
benign laws embraced in its system,. All agreed that the time 
was ripe for the establishment of such an institution; that it was 
the new-born child of progress, whose three-fold star "Love, Jus- 
tice and Equal Rights" under the providence of God, should 
shine with increasing brightness upon a new era of peace and 
prosperity, guiding a belated race into a higher sphere of spiritual 
life. 

At the meeting for organization, the constitution as we have 
set forth and b3^-laws were adopted. Three hundred people and 
over, signed the constitution, paid the fee of $1.00 and became 
citizens of The New Government. It was a novel situation. 
Citizens, twice over, citizens of the old Government and citizens 
of the New. The latter, jnst opening its eyes, in no way an- 
tagonistic to the old government, but destined, in the progress of 
events, to swallow up every vestige of the old in its irresistible 
vortex. Great care and much deliberation were exercised in the 
nomination and election of the House of Business. The mem- 
bers of the House were few in number at the beginning of the 
government, compared to its after speedy growth, the plan be- 
ing to elect new members of the Elouse as occasion demanded. 

The first election consisted of a Manager-in-chief and Assist- 
ant, a Central committee of three, a Clerk of the House, a Treas- 



OEGAXIZATIOX OF THE XEW GOVERXMEXT. 8i 

iirer, one memher of the Advisory Bench, a Secretary of Puhlica- 
ticm and Printing;, a Secretary of Trades, Arts and Professions, a 
Secretary of Edncation and Cnlture and an Examining Commit- 
tee. The Xew Government was now fully organized, and nnder 
the terms of its charter was ready to carry on an extended busi- 
ness. There were, to begin with, a Tailoring House yielding a 
profit at a rate of $300 a month above all expenses; a Dressmaking 
prstablishment yielding about the same revenue, employing, all 
told, abont 30 persons. There were received $300 from charter 
members, besides several liberal contributions, making a total of 
about $2,000 in the treasury at the completion of the organiza- 
tion. 

As may be readily conceived, the prospects were very bright. 
TJie members of the House of Business felt their responsibility 
and acted carefully. They launched each enterprit^e cautiously, 
where the demands were the greatest. A hat department and 
millinery department were added, which shortly enlarged to the 
manufacture of the same as far as possible. This employed 
more new hands. Then a boot and shoe store was opened; next 
came a grocery store. Then it became necessary to have goods 
transported, and this gave rise to a delivery and baggage systean 
and carriage hire. Before this, I shoud have said, The Xew 
Government paper appeared on the scene and soon gained a 
larse circula.tion. As it was the policy of the Government to 
cu.ijiloy only members, although it sold goods to all, at the 
same low rates, it was noit long before the Examining Com- 
mittee was receiving* applications for citizenship at the rate 
of '?5 to 50 a day. As will be seen, the money was pouring in 
from many sources, but the treasnry was kept quite depleted by 
the improvements and enterprises. 

X^ow ])eople began to be aroused in earnest. The Xew 



82 THE STOEY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT. 

Government could scarcely be called an experimenit any longer. 
It was a live success. In three months' time it was employing 
about 100 people at fair salaries; enlarging and employing 
more constantly. It now appeared a serious menace to the busi- 
ness men of the city. The patronage of many houses fell off 
materially. Even the Emporium began to eye its new rival with 
suspicion. 

Finally a meeting of the respective business men, whose busi- 
ness The New Government affected, was called, resolutions con- 
demning the Institution were passed, but nothing further oould 
be done. The work went on with greater momentum. Every 
opposition seemed only to give it more strength. The Sunday 
services were crowded, and a more commodious building was se- 
cured. Every department of the Sunday Training School and 
Class Culture Schools was extended. More rooms had to be 
added to accommodate both the day and evening classes. The 
first Department of Preparatory Training and Education was 
opened six months after the opening of the first Hall of Educa- 
tion. There was quite a liberal appropriation and many gifts, 
which enabled the Minister of Instructio'n to carry forward the 
work on quite a pretentious scale. 

So the work continued to enlarge and advance all along the 
lines started. Those in ofhcial capacity were crowded with 
work. Mainy were obliged to dispose of their private business 
and devote theinselves wholly to the Government service. All 
the buildings occupied were too small for the accommodation of 
the ever increasing numbers. The citizens were calling on all 
sides for commodities not yet handled by The New Grovemment. 
The Secretary of Arts, Labor, Trades and Professions was per- 
plexed in his lack of conveniences, although he had a staff of 
aibout a dozen under his manaa-ement. His department was 



0EaAXI2ATI0^^ OF THP: XFAV 0OTEEX]kIEXT. 83 

more overcrowded than any of the others, and at this stage of the 
premature growth of the Institnrion, his work was largely forma- 
tive and experimental, and the lack of facilities retarded the per- 
fection of tlw thoroirgh systematic working of this department, 
Aipon which so much depenfled. for all eyes are turned upon this 
j)oint of the Governmeur. Here it is that the pulse of the pub- 
lic condition is first felt in the demands for employment: here 
it is where all look for accurate returns of proceeding's of the 
House of Business and that coustantly: here it is where the citi- 
-zen has tlw right to come and inspect the books of government 
and inform himself or lierself just what has been and what is be- 
ing done, and how it is done: here it is wliere all information 
pertaining to the Government at large and the citizens individu- 
ally, is collected, arranged, classified and turned over to The Xew 
Government ])aper, which heralds abroad, daily, facts and figures, 
which everyone may read, understand and grow wise. It be- 
came evident to the House that something must be done, and 
that on an enlarged scale^ to provide increased facilities not only 
for this department, but for all the others as well. 

The following are 'some of the items as found in ''The Xew 
Government Daily Herald" at its first annual report: ''The 
citizens, friends and enemies of The Xew Government ^H11 be 
much interested and concerned to learn some of the results of a 
year's operation of this remarkable institution, established in the 
City of San Francisco, among a cosmopolitan people, supposed 
to be a difficult ])lace to beg'in any great enterprise, and yet here 
are significant facts. ' If tiie second year shows correspondingly 
like figures, Ihen the institution i< destined to become Xational. 
In the Department of Education and Culture the Sunday services 
have an average attendance of "2000 people morning and evening. 
Some of the most talented speakers East and West, have already 



84 THE STOEY OF THE :\TEW GOTERXMEKT. 

been heard in these meetings. The Eclectic School of Divine 
Philosophy, Sunday afternoons has an attendance of abotit 1000' 
people. Here ministers and leaders of all schools of thought 
intermingle and learn of each other. The Sunday Training 
School has twenty-fonr different departments, with 3000 enrolled 
pnpils. The mnsical and literary entertainments and dramas^ 
are well patronized. These denartments are no'W self-sustaining. 
There is one main preparatory School of Training and Education; 
with two branches, and has 15 teachers in all, with 180 children, 
from babies up to 6 years of age. In the Industrial Department 
tlie showdng is equally hne. There is one central Tailoring 
Plonse, employing 15 hands, and yielding an average monthly 
revenue above all expenses of $150 a month; a Dressmaking Es- 
tablishment with Eillinery Department, emplo}dng GO hands, 
and yields a monthlyrevenue clear of about $T?0; a Hat Store em- 
ployinff 10 hands, and yielding a revenne of $300 a month; a Boot, 
and Shoe Store, employing 15 waiters and w^orkmen, with a. 
revenue of $400 a month. In addition to these there is a 
grocery store, a fruit and vegetable stand, a deliveiy system of 
eight v^agons, a blacksmith shop, carpenter shop, a well ordered 
restaurant, a candy store, a well equipped printing office, v/itli 
5 presses and a choice lot of type, employing 15 hands; a bar- 
bering and hair-dressing and manicnring establishment; a 
drug store and meat market. All told, there are 319 people 
ef-nployed, officials inclnded with salaries ramung from >'150 a 
mot rl; for the Manager-in-Ciiief imd Minister of Instruction 
doAvn to $2.00 a month, being the smallest ivjicmnt paid in the 
Simday Training School. Over and above the enfire expenses 
there is a surplus in the Treasury of $15,000. ^1iere ar > 4 M);^ 
members of the Edncational Department, each paying a fee of 
$1.00 a month, and 8000 citizens, each paying a tax of $1.00 per 



THE SECOXD HOUSE OF BUSIXESS. 85 

Jiiontli, and this number is constantly increasing. There are now 
7000 a])]jh-cati()ns for emplovment, showing, indeed, that peo])]e 
5ire not onlv needy for means of self-support, but thai: 
the mass of them are anxious to be engaged at some kind of ser- 
vice. We hope that The Xew Government, in the not far dis- 
ta,nt future, wiU be able to em|)]oy not only all these who are now 
knocking so loudlv for assistance at her portals, but that she mav 
yet be able tog:ather to her maternal breast vast numbers ©f her 
npjtural born chikh-en who have not yet learned to realize her il- 
hmrtable resources, her measureless growth and the universal 
blessings in the Divine order of her beincr " 

Such was the eloquent sti-ain in vrhich the editor of "The 
Xew Government HeraJrr' closed his first annual report. 

CHAPTER A^ 



THE SEGOXI) HOUSE OF BUSIXESS. 

Activo Busmes?s Operations of the Second House— New Enterprises- 
Several Similar Institutions Started— Country Needs— Wealth Accnmii- 
latins. 



At ihe second election great interest was manifested, both 
by the citizens and those who were now beginning to turn 
A-ery favorably toward the new Government, not o-nly in San 
l^-an Cisco, but in other places which were wntchng with interest 
i.he new move in the far West. This time there was an election of 
a full House. Some 6f the members did not receive salaries for 
a rime, as there were little duties connected ^nth their offices as 
yet, but they were elected upon the expectation of the speedy 
opening of new departments, which took ]dace in a short time. 
The handsome snm in the treasury, too-ether with the steadv 



86 THE STOEY OF THE KEW GOVERNMENT, 

reveni^ie from establisherl business, warra-nted the new House of 
Business to enlarge very materially. A central headquarters^ 
large and commodious lor the time being, was se^^cured. All the 
departments were grouped together, having ample otHce room 
conveniently arranged to facilitate business. There was a large 
assembly hall, where frequent mass meetings were held, in which 
all matters of public interest were discussed and reports made 
by represegitatives. 

A central supply depot was located ccmveniently near the heart 
of the city. These were department stores. In one were to be 
found groceries, meat, fish, dairy, fruit and vegetable markets, 
etc. Corresponding to the retail department was a produce 
storehouse near the water front, where country shipments were 
received direct. Applications to make consignments soon came 
pouring in from all parts of the country. Dairymen, fanners, 
siockraisers, fruit-growers, gardeners and other producers were 
not slow to recognize the hour of deliverance from the commis- 
sion system. Prices for their products went up materially; the 
profits and shortage which went before to enrich the private 
houses ncjw, was shared with the toiler and the Government 
Treasury, wdiich was circulated as capital to start more enter- 
prises, to enable other toilers to win the bread of life. Of course 
the commission houses fought hard against this, but they soon 
found they had a rival with a larger capital than they, who 
could not be terrfied nor downed by reduction in prices. This 
only hastened their death, for the citizens had no care to forsake 
the mother who wa^ nourishing them, nor was the producer to 
be allured from his newly found friend. Better prices soon 
prevailed for all products and fair rates to consumers. Near 
this depot was a furnishing emporium, in which were to be found 
in its various depariments clothing, dry goods, fancy goods, 



THE SECOXD HOUSE OF BUSIXESS. ^7 

millinery, hats, furs, stationery, books, jewelry, fine arts, 
crockery, musical istruments, boots and shoes, novelties, house 
fui-nishings, etc. At fi]-st the goods were bought in limit C'd 
c'Jiiounts from local wholesale houses, then in larger quantities 
dii-ect from P]astern importers, and, as the institutions grew, 
by direct impoiiations, until such time as the commodities could 
be produced at home, or the government dependent on foreign 
or interstate imports. A coal, wood, hay and grain depot was 
started, wliich wa,s managed in the same manner. Then there 
was opened a miscelhmeous supply depot, wiiich gave rise to a 
large number of manufacturing de])artments, which were added 
one after another. Here were to be found machinery, tools, im- 
pleuients, hardware of all kinds, stoves, furniture, bicycles, 
plumbing sup})]ies, gas and electric supplies, safes, harness, tin- 
ware, wagons, and all manner of miscellaneous supplies. Soon 
tlie little blacksmithshop turned into a great horse-shoeing es- 
tablishment, and the iron-working part of it into a machine 
shop, having a ra])id growth into a large works with many de- 
l)ai'tnients. The little carpenter shop grew into an extensive 
manufactory, turning out furniture, wagons and buggies, imple- 
ments, builders' furnishings, patterns, models and all kinds of 
wood supplies. A laundry, cleaning and dyeing establiisihment 
was also opened, and then a shirt factory. Xext came a canning 
estal)lishment and several smaller enterprises which it is not 
necessary to mention. All of these were started during the ad- 
ministration of the Second House, but of course did not at once 
grow into the magnitude outlined. 

Quite an advancement was made in the direction of the Build- 
ing and Improvement, Transportation and Public Service De- 
])artments, some of which we have indicated. Xo attempt was 
made so early at larger enterprises such as extensive transporta- 



88 THE STOEY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT. 

tion^ agriculture^ mining, colonization, etc. — these were left to a 
more adyanced stage of growth. 

The course of the House during its entire 'term was com- 
mended by the citizens. While it seemed like a vast and dan- 
gerous undertaking to project so many enterprises in such a 
short space of time, yet the situation demanded it. Great num- 
bers of people were clamoring for employment. The citizens 
staunchly supported the Government with patronage, influence 
and gifts. There was a good, steady and increasing revenue. 
The institution was on a sound basis, and a large loan was readily 
secured for exitension purposes. The House felt and guarded 
its way carefully. Man}' tine business men from all depart- 
ments of business were constantly maJdng applications for citi- 
zenship. Skilled artisans, tradesmen and tradeswomen of all 
crafts, were taking their places on the roll and working up to 
rank. There was opportunity for boys to learn trades without 
union restrictions. There was no contest for positions; there 
was only one rule and everything worked according to that rule. 
It was as unalterable as the law of the ]\Iedes and Persians. 
There was no chance for favoritism nor intrigue. The system 
was as nature in her workings. He ^^dio moved in harmony 
with its parts and tilled his place became a part in the great ma- 
chine, and so enjoyed peace and plenty. He who was contrary, 
suffered the penalty and was sloughed off to try it over again. 
And this worked equally the same with great and small. 

Toward the close of the second term the working of the new 
Government was demonstrated so satisfactorily that two or three 
of the Eastern cities, as well as Sacramento, Stockton, Oakland 
and Los Angeles, established similar institutions. 

The movement inspired much hope throughout the country. 
It was an evident fact that business in San Erancisco had received 



THE SECOXD HOUSE OF BUSINESS. 89 

a great impe'tus. People in agricultural, dairying and fruit- 
growing sections looked for and found better times in the ad- 
vanced market prices, and wondered whether or not the time 
would come when tlie rural toiler would become a child of the 
government and have his line of work laid out for him and 
freed from anxiety, as was the city toiler. Long -had the over- 
worked and driven farmer served the life of a slave, burdened 
with taxes, rent and mortgages, deprived of social and intel- 
lectual privileges. The world was very small to him, and life 
cramped. Early and late he toiled to make ends meet. Wife 
and mother stood nobly by his side and fought against hard- 
s]ii])s — di-oiig]it and floods, pests, mildew and rust, frosts and 
scorcliing heat, summer suns and winter's banks of snow, sick- 
ness, accidents and poor prices. What wonder the aspiring boy 
or girl, tired of the sluggish, slavish life, sought to escape from 
tlu^ farm, and crowded into the cities to fall into all manner of 
dangers. How oft has my heart been stirred with pity as I 
watched the struggling farmer on the frontier, in the Western 
States and Pacific Slope. Leaving his poverty in the East, to 
find in too many cases greater ])overty and hardships in the 
West. Toiling to Lniild a little home for himiself ami children; 
contending against storms and failure of crops; paying enonnous 
oommissions for household effects and im])lements; freight 
charges which consunu^d all his profits; extortionate rates of in- 
terest from which he hopelessly tried to escape. He found 
himself,- in multitud'es of cases forced to forsake the little home 
which he, the wife and the children had labored, sacrificed and 
endured so much to build. The work and deprivations and 
ho]ies of years i]i vain. He was sent adrift to find still greater 
hardshi])s. a.nd none had time to care, for did not others, too, 
liave to struggle though to them the fates seemed kindlier. Or 



90 THE STORY OF THE NJ^:W GOYERNMElSrT. 

if, indeed, lie succeeded after years of hardships in becoming 
prosperous, what was the price he paid? He, his wife and chil- 
dren became confirmed in their habits; they rose early and 
worked late; they had little time for recreation, social enjoy- 
ment or culture. The sum total of life consisted in the neigh- 
borhood news or gossip, the farm, stock, plans and prospects and 
an occasional glimpse at the outside world and a periodical in- 
terest in public affairs at election times. Perhaps they attended 
the country or village church, and through the influence of pro- 
tratced or revival meetings, or by the ministrations of priest or 
minister, they became members of some sectarian religious body. 
They had the consolation of religious teaching that if in life 
they possessed devout faith in Jesus Christ, when they died they 
would go to heaven. The children 'having little advantage of 
good schooling in early years, went through life uneducated. 
The result was, they in turn became fathers and mothers, and 
continued the family or neighborhood life and institutions with 
certain modifications or advancements, according as they were 
acted upon by the outside world. 

The great embarrassment and stagnation of business at the 
centers of population of which I have spoken affected even the 
remotest rural districts. The New Government promised in a 
simple, methodical manner not only to improve the business, but 
to revolutionize country life. H had outlined the practical 
workings to accomplish this, xilready the country in certain 
sections derived much benefit from the young institution, and 
this without in any manner being connected with it. What the 
results would be with The New Government in full operation, 
not only in city, but in town and country, was now the subject of 
speculation by all who knew anything about its workings. And, 
of course, already there began to be felt the pressure of demands 



THE SECOXD HOUSE OF BFSIXESS. 91 

from the country for citizenship and country enterprises. Of 
course these could onh' work from centers out, and the time had 
not yet arrived for this. First must come the entire control of 
munici])al affaij-s, and then a State Xew Government. After- 
wards the full henefit to country by State (lovernment super- 
vision. 

The statistical report for the second year showed a citizenship 
of 3:3jO()0; a monthly revenue over and above all running ex- 
penses of $35,000; pro]3erty valued at $250,000, with $100,000 in 
the treasury. Two district halls of education, five preparatory 
"training schools, and seven Sunday training schools, a theater, 
concert hall and amusement hall. The Printing and Publication 
Department had grown wonderfully. "The New Government 
Herald" had a circulation of over 100,000 c-opies, and changed 
from a weekly to an eight-page daily. 

The pi'ogress which characterized The Xew Government of San 
Francisco the first two years of its growth continued with more 
or less success, not. however, without its peculiar difficulties, 
during the next two years, at the end of which time there were 
very remarkable showings, not only of the San Francisco local, 
but other local governments, some of which results we will indi- 
cate in anotlier chapter. 



gi THE STORY OF THE ^'¥M GOVERISTMEKT, 

CHAPTER VI. 



THE THREEFOLD VISION OF KING KOLLIS THE 

GREAT. 

Wliieli lie had in tlie Latter Days of His Reign, While he was yet 
High and Lefted up Among the Sons of Men, -- 



CHARTER I. 



King Kollis and thrceother Kings — Building of the Iron Road — Grear 
Loans from Govenmient — Would not pay back loans — Their Cunning' 
Trick— The Great Trial—Prince Maguire—King Kolllis' Power is- 
brolven.— 



1. Now Iving KolJis had waxed very great, and the fame of his- 
deeds and his greatness went abroad over all the earth. 

2. His kingdom extended from the muddy river on the east,. 
across the great monntains to the mighty ocean on the west. 

3. And far up the north, toward the borders of the Great Em- 
pire of the New AYorld, dovvai to its uttermost limits on the south.. 

4. Now King Kollis did not have possession of this vast terri- 
tory, but he did have ]30wer and control, whereby he laid all this 
country tributary to him, and the great iron roads which he and 
his fellow-princes in former times had builded, by much aid from 
the Government of the Great Empire. 

5. The other three which did own and control with King 
Kollis these great iron highroads of commerce had in the full- 
ness of their days passed away' and left their great possessions 
unto those who did inherit, and King Kollis over all. 

6. Now, the building of these great highroads of iron, and all 
matters of interest pertaining unto the same, is it not shown in 
the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of California. 

*Taken from the "Book of the Chronicles" of the King of California, 
which will be found later on and written by "The Prophet". 



THE THREEFOLD TISlOX OF KlXO KOLLlS. 93 

V. How that before the building of the iron road there was 
Itlie b/^ginning of tlie war of tbie great rebellion, wjiieh did last 
anany years throiigliout the Great Ein])ire. 

8. And the Government thinking it would have much use 
of the iron road in carrying its armies, did encourage its building. 

9. And to this end did give large gifts of land in the extent 
of 1()0 furlongs on each side the iron road for the length of 600 
leagues from the city on the muddy river to the city on the 
plane of the land of gold. A.nd that in the four-score and thir- 
teenth 3'ear of the establishment of the Great Em]:>ire this great 
highway of iron, which was the wonder of the world because of 
its exceeding length, was finished, being eight years in building. 

10. And when the golden spike was driven which did unite 
tlie two divisions of the iron road, and the news did speed along 
tlie wires from the ("ity of the Golden West to the great city on 
the mighty ocean on the East that the Great Empire was at 
last bound by two bands of iron, then there wa^ much rejoicing. 

11. And so this makes one of the three great scenes sculptured 
on the Capitol of the Great Empire, as history doth relate. 

12. Xow these four Princes were shrewd beyond their gen- 
eration. 

13. They did 'have but -little money of their own: it was said 
not more than sixty talents of gold all told. 

14. They carried on stores of merchandise in the land of gold: 

15. But they planned and planned ho^v they could make 
much money out of Iheir little, and this, too, in the time of dis- 
tress of the country because of war. While others fought aind 
died to save their country, these Princes planned and labored 
to grow rich out of their country's needs. 

16. And the Government being in much straits, and concerned 
about important matters, did not discover their plans: 



94 THE STORY OF THE KEW GOVERXME]?^T, 

17. So when the four Princes did desire a loan of 17,50(1 
talents of gold from the Cloverument. with usury for a term of 
one-score years and ten, it was given unto them, that the road 
might be completed. 

18. Now, it had been stipulated in the grant of lands that if 
the company of the Princes did not sell alh their land in five 
years' time, it was to be returned unto the Government and sold 
by the Government unto settlers for not more than five shekels 
for each acre, and the money given unto the Princes to pay for 
their road. 

19. But what did the Princes do? Xot having sold but a 
part of the hind to settlers, and knowing the land would in- 
crease much in value if they held it: they therefore sold the en- 
tire lot, by a trick, umto one of themselves, who held it for a while 
and afterwards did return it unto the company. 

20. By this means the Princes gave out that the land was all 
sold, and so did get the great loan of 17,500 talents of gold from 
the Government, and afterwards another like loan of 17,500 
talents, all of which great sums of money were to be paid back 
at different times, with usur}% in the space of three-score years 
and ten. 

21. Xow it came about that the Princes did sell each acre of 
the land for many pieces of silver, in the course of years, which 
the Government did require them to sell for a small sum umto 
poor people who did want to make for themseves homes aong 
the country through which the great iron road ran; and this be- 
cause of the trick which tlie Princes did do. 

22. And likewise the company of Princes never did pay back 
unto the Government any part of the loan which they did re- 
ceive and only a very small part of the usury. 

23. And furthermore, they did make demands upon the Gov- 



THE THREEFOLD VISION OF KIXCI KOLLIS. 95 

ernment for large sums of money for carrying some of tiie army 
on their highroad during times of war, which they had agreed to 
do free of cost hecause of the great favors and gifts w'hich they 
liad rpceived. 

24-. And wlienever the Oovernmeni did make demands for 
even tlie interest, tJie com})any of Princeis did e>yade by all man- 
ner of tricks and deception, hiring the most skilled adyoeates of 
law aud buying np with gifts of much money members of the 
(rovernnuMlt wlio liad l)een entrusted wth the sacred rights of 
tlie ])eoi)le. 

2'). And this tiiey continued to do unto the end of the one- 
soore years and ten. 

2(). Hut in the meantime, the Princes with the untold reyenue, 
wliich they did get from this great iron road, went and builded 
otlier great highioads in the south and north, which ha^s been 
told, and did direct nuu-h of the trathc along these roads to 
great ]:>rofit. 

'■7. I-nt rlu'y (^id cunningly do all this in a manner so that 
the (lovernment could have no hold upon these roads for their 
great debt. 

2H. 1 hen at the end of the ore-score years and ten. King Kollis, 
who only was left alive of the company of the four Princes, did 
with might and nuiin, luight and day, with all of his army of 
])aid menials and defenders, try to get a bill passed for Govern- 
nuuit to grant further time and ])riyilege to use the first great 
iran read and all its profits for his own benefit, without paying 
any of his just del)t. 

■^9. lUn nuaiy great men and i:>owerfnl did rise up and try to 
defeat the ends of the hardened, scheming King. Foremost 
among these great men was Prince ]\iaguire. 

:V\ And in the trial of the King which did take place he did 



96 THE STOKY OF THE NEW CxOVERNMENT. 

without shame swear unto many lies, declaring things which no- 
body did believe. 

81. He did swear, among many things, that before the build- 
ing of the road he was worth over 600 talents of gold, which did 
enable him to build the iron road, whereas it could not be found 
in the records that he was ever taxed by the Governmient for even 
five 'talents of gold. 

32. And so it came to pass that King Kollis found that the 
mighty power which he had in his former years was broken, and 
that the people who had aforetime feared and served him no 
longer dreaded him, and none loved him. 

CHAPTER II. 



Meditation of King Kollis; he Exalteth Himself — He Congratnlateth 
Himself as the Favored One of the Gods. 



Averse 1. — Now King Kollis had been gifted with a strong 
body, and was well preserved in health and strengith even after he 
had grown to be three-score years and ten. 

2. It was in the twenty-seventh year of the completion of the 
great iron road, and after King Kollis had failed to frighten or 
buy the Government into passing a bill granting unto him 
an extension of time and favors, that the King had the strange 
visions. 

3. One day while walking in the beautiful grounds which he 
had laid out for his pleasure, the King fell to musing. 

4. And his thoughts did turn upon his vast possessions and 
power and the great public highroads which he had builded. 

5. And he said within himself, "So they opposed me, did 
they? Yea, they thwarted my scheme, but by the gods I'll beat 
them vet. Have I not bought my men for the hundreds, 



THE THREEFOLD VISION OF KINO KOLLIS. 97 

thousand's? Yea, and it cost sometimes mam- thousands; but it 
paid, yea, it paid." 

6. And the King chuckled and rul)bed his hands, and tlie 
eyes that were so hard and cold to the world, lighted with a 
mellow yellow light as he thought of his greatness and hoarded 
treasure and untold wealth. 

7. "Art thou not a King, such as the world has never seen? 
(ousider, oh mighty man, the thousands who toil on thy great 
roads — how thou art feared and honored. 

8. How thou ridest in thy palace on wheels and all give way 
L'cfore thee; how thou goest withersoever thou wilt and none 
saith nnto thee. What doest thou? 

9. Thy word is law; thou settest up whomsoever thou wilt, and 
layeth low according unto thy desire. 

10. The wheels of thy thousands of chariots continually roll 
and carry uierchandise to the four quarters of the earth. 

11. All pay unto thee a tax, as thou art pleased to exact. 

12. The opening of thy mighty highroads has brought thou- 
sands and tens of thousands from all nations to inhabit thy terri- 
tory and share their gains with thee. 

1:]. Thou ownest thy street railroads and thy ferry boats, 
whit'li run ni<iht and day and gather toll from countle<ss nuui- 
l.crs. 

U. What is there upon the earth which thou hast not and 
cnaist not have if thou desire.^t? 

15. Alt thou not the greatest in the nation? And lo! all the 
world honors thee. 

H^. Surely, the gods have been very gracious unto thee and 
thou wilt win yet; and when thou art gone, the world will say. 
Was this not the great King Kollis? and laud thee for thy 
o-reat works for the benefit of man.'' 



THE STORY OF Till'; NJ^W GOVERNMENT. 

17. Thus did King Kollis speak within himself. 

18. That nioht he had a vision. 



OH AFTER in. 



The King's First Vision — He and three Others Phmt Gold in Water- 
Sacks in a Field — The Great Tree — The Birds Lodge in the Branches 
Thereof— The Months of the Tree— The Tree Puteth Forth Yellu\^ 
Berries — The King Watcheth the Tree — The Owner Wants the Tree — 
The Fight — The King Interprets the Dream as a Good Omen. 



Verse 1. This is the first vision which the King had. 

2. He saw himself and three others take boxes filled with gold 
pieces and go and bny a field in the midst of the Great Empire, for 
which they agreed to i^ay besides, five boxes filled with the fruits 
of the field. 

3. Then they sat them down and made li'ttle 'sacks and ]nit in 
each a gold piece, and filled the sacks with water. 

4. And afterward they went in the night and planted the 
sacks throughout the field, until the morning. 

5. And after many suns had conre and gone. King Kollis went 
one day to look at the field, and lo! and behold, a strange sight 
met his eye. 

(). A tree had grown in the midst of the field, whose roots 
grew from the sacks wliich he and the other three had planted. 

7. The tree was exceeding great and reached unto the 
heavens, and spread his branches unto the four winds of tlie 
earth. 

8. And the hirds of the air came from all quarters and lodged 
in the branches and builded their nests therein. 

9. Amd the King saw the birds go out and toil 'all day and 
brino- in food to Iheir nests. 



THE THREEFOLD VISION OF KING KOLLIS. 99 

10. And, as he watched, he was filled with astonishment to be- 
hold what he had not seen before — that the tree had mouths 
under the nests, and did con?^ume nearly all that the birds did 
bring back. 

11. So that as the King looked from day to day he saw the 
birds grow very thin and weak, for the tree did consume the most 
of their liviiug. 

12. But now the King saw something which did make his 
heart glad. 

13. T]\e tree did ])ut forth all over its branc^hes little yellow 
berries, which were beautiful to look upon and precious to 
possess. 

14. And when the King saw the berries, he was greedy to get 
them, and he went and gathered them quickly. 

15. Xow, it was the food which the birds did gather for 
themselves and the tree consumed which did cause the precious 
yellow berries to grow. 

1(). Aud when the birds would have plucked the yellow ber- 
ries to feed their famislied badies, the King drove them away. 

17. Xevertheless, he did not kill the birds outright, for they 
did labor to nourish the tree, yet he did take all kinds of 
])recaution and means to prevent them from plucking the berries, 
and did seriously injure and sometimes destroy them in his anger. 

18. And this went on for a very long time; the tree con- 
tinued to grow and put forth berries constantly, and strange birds 
came, and they all labored and toiled, and while a few grew fat 
who managed to steal the berries, the rest grew thin and sick- 
ened and died, but others came and took their places. 

19. Xor did the King rest day nor night, but gathered the 
berrio- into boxes and hid them away. 

2^. But he had to hire manv watchers to watch the field and 



lOO THE STORY OF THE KEW GOVERNMENT. 

the tree tha.t his enemies, who did desire very much to get 
possession of the tree and its bierries, s'honld not come nigh. 

21. And when the time bad come to pay for the field by its 
fruits, the King had all, hidden away. 

22. zVnd he told the owner of the field that there were only 
a very few berries grew cm the tree, and that the birds did devour 
most of them. 

23. And when the owner had come for iihe purchase price 
of the field a greait many time's, and King Kollis did repe;atedly 
deceive him, he at last resolved to take possession of the trcL\ 

24. So the owner brought a large force, but the King bad 
many hired shrewd servants, and they did fight the owner of the 
field and kept him from taking possession of the tree. 

25. And while they all fought over the tree the King kept on 
gathering tbe yellow berr.'e"^ and hid tbem away. 

26. And wbile the King was yet plucking the berries he 
awakened out of his sleep, and it was only a dream. 

27. And he said to himself, "Ha! ha I did I not say I would 
beat tbem yet? This is a good omen. The gods are with me.'' 

28. And the King could sleep no more that night, because of 
the many plans which he did make. 



(RAFTER lA^ 

The Second Msion— The King Wonhl Ride in his Pakice on Wheels- 
He Ourseth Because of the Rust— He Walks on the Hif?h-road— Tht 
Meeting with the Witches — The Songs of the Witches — The Witches 
Carry the King to a High Mount— The Beautiful Sights he Beheld— H< 
Awaketh. and Fears for the words "Whilst Thy Body Crumbles unt. 
Dust." 



Verse 1. — Tbe next nioht Kin 2^ Kollis had another vision. 



THE THREEFOLD VISIOX OF KIXG KOLLIS. loi 

2. The Kino- said to himself, "I will get into my palace and 
ride over the great road which I have bnilded, and view my many 
works and discover how all manner of things do go." 

->. So the Jving got him np into his palace on wheels, and hade 
his .-cTvant '.^rive on with the iron liorse which knew no weari- 
iKNS nor fear. 

4. And when the King waited a h)ng time and the iron horse 
moved not. he was mucli disturbed, and called the servant to en- 
quire the cause. 

.">. So the servant crme ;;nd ^aid. '*OhI King, he not dis|)leas(Ml 
nor ]:C thy anger fall upon ns, for we cannot make the iron horse 
go, for his wheels are covered with rust, and there is rnst on the 
i-ails and the chariot will not move." 

('. 'I'hcn the King was fn.ll cf wrath, and he did curse, and en- 
([uire the cause of all this. 

]. And he sent for his high servants and lords to know the 
TCP -on of tire rnst. 

8. And none conld tell him what was the canse. 

9. Then the King said, "I will go myself and find out why this 
thing is, and he who is at fanlt shall pay with his life, and the 
gods will make merry at his bnrial.'" 

10. Sa the King set out to walk, and he walked and walked 
lor mpny days on the highroad which he had bnilded. and at 
r.ight hv lay him down to slecj) awav his weariness. 

11. And he orew very weary and very hungry and very thin. 
; nd none gave unto him, nor came near him. 

12. And everywhere there was rnst on the rails, and mildew 
on the bridges. 

13. And after the King had walked a very long time, he came 
unto the mountains and ky him down in the solrtnde of the great 
forest to slee]:> awav his weariness. 



102 THE STORY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT. 

14. He was awakemed out of his sleep in the midst of the night 
by a great company of witches who gathered about him and sang 
a strange song. 

15. And the witches were uncanny to look upon, their black 
eyes sparkled like beads of light; 

16. Their faces were hollow and withered, their hands and 
limbs were long and thin, on their heads they wore black hoods, 
and their frocks were tattered and flew in the wind. 

17. In their hands they held long brooms, and they danced 
and sang till the woods did ring. 

18. And they came near the King and peered in his face, and 
sang as they pajssed, each one in her place. 



n? 



19. "Hast thou found, hast thou found, Oh! Kin 

Why the rust on the rails lies deep. 
And the mildew on the bridges doth cling. 
And none for thy trouble doth w^eep? 

20. Come then quickly. Oh! King, 

A box of yellow berries now bring. 
And whilst thou steepest, we will sweep 

Away the rust, which is ven^ dee| 
x\nd for the end thou soon ishalt weep. 
But the secret we will keep. 
The secret we will keep, will keep, will keep. 

21. Then the King hurried away and soou brought back a 
box of yellow berries and gave them to the witches, who did 
eat them greedily, and then they danced and sang with great 
glee and shook their brooms, and made the woods again to ring. 

22. And they said as thev did sing — 

"Oreat is Kollis, the King. 

Who, the yellow berries did bring, 
And orave to the witches who sing. 



THE THEEEFOLD VISIOX OF KING KOLLIS. 103 

'Zo. For our bodies were leaii and thin, 
And we had no strengtli within, 
Tlie rust to sweep. 

Which on the rail.-^ lies deep 

'i\:. I)Ut now we will sweep 

While the King doth sleep, 
And our bodies fat will grow 

On the berries which we eat. 
VoY the end, soon all will know, 

l>ut the secret we will keep. 

■J.-). Slccj) on, oh. King, He (h)wn nnd slec^p. 
And as t^hon sleepest we will sweep 
Away the rust, which is very dc^p; 

And for the end thou soon shadt weep 
r>ut the secret we will keep. 

The secret we will keep, will keep, will keep." 

•id. Then iho King in his vision lay down to slee]), feeling 
snre that in ihc morning the rust and mildew would be gone, 
nnd he would return home in trium])h. 

■3T. But when he awaken^ed the rusi and mildew were still 
ihere, but the witches had gone. 

•38. And the King was veiw angry, for hnd he not given away 
;i box of his yellow berries? 

•31). And at night he lay down to sleep, amd the Witches came 
again and sang as on the firsft visit, and got another box of the 
l)erries. — and thiis they did for many nights until they had gotten 
all the yellow berries which the King had stored. 

;?(). And they camie again, and asked for more, hut the King 
said. 'T have no more to give you. You have lied unto me, for 
vou swei)t not the rust and the mildew away, wliich you 
])roniise(l." ■ 



I04 THE STORY OF THE XEW GOVERNMENT. 

31. And the Witches said — 

"C*ome, oh! King, to thee we'll slww, 

What come to pass shortly must 
Which all the world ere long will know, 

Whilst thy body crnmbles unto dust." 

32. Then they cauglit up the King and carried him to a 
mountain most high, and he beheld a stra>nge sight. 

33. He saw a double highroad, whose iron rails shone like 
silver streaks of light. 

34. And from this, other like roads did branch in all direc- 
tions. 

35. And great cities rich and prosperous did lie along the 
highroads, and no poverty nor mean habitations did burden the 
earth. 

36. And on the highroaids did run chariots greater and more 
beautiful than anything the King had ever seen and many trains 
of chariots, carr^dng multitudes of people hither and thither, 
continually did go. 

37. And the engines, ponderous and shapely, did move with 
subtle power and wonderous speed, and carry vast loads of mer- 
chandise. 

38. And the King marvelled at the splendor of all he saw; 
the gladness of the people; the richness of their dwellings; and 
the abundance of their possessions. 

39. And the visions passed froui him and he awakened out of 
his sleep. 

-10. And the King said to himself, ''Ha! ha! the gods do favor 
me, I shall win yet, and do greater things than I have ever done." 
But he did remember the words of the \Yitches: "Whilst thy 
body crumbles unto dust", and his heart failed him. 



THE THREEFOLD VISION OF KIXG KOLLIS. 105 
CHAPTEE Y. 



Tho Third Vision— The King and the Three Shadowy Forms— They 
all Hunger for Gold, but no Gold Where They Dwelll— The Rotted 
Sack and the Worms — The worm eats into the King's Vitals — His 
PVarful Agony— The Words of the Voices — The Interpretation of the 
A'isions l)y "The Piophet" — The King Dieth and Goeth unto His Own 
i'lace— Before this Death He Giveth I^r.rge Gifts unto "The New Gov- 
ernment." 



Ver^e 1. Ao:iiin tlie third nifrht tlie King did have troubled 
dreams. 

2. Tie thought he went out to tbe field which be had seen in 
his first vision to gather more yellow berries in the place of those 
he had given away to the witches. 

3. But when he came to the field, lo! and behold, he saw no 
tree therein, then in his great disappointment he determined to 
dig for t'he gold pieces which he and the three others had planted. 

4. So in the darkness of the night he came and digged in the 
]daces where he had planted the gold ]3ieces in the sacks of water. 

T). And lo, as he digged, there came three shadowy forms from 
out the darkness, with spades, and they too digged. 

(). x\nd the King said unto them ''Who are ye and why dig ye 
liere?" and they said, "Who helped thee plant the gold pieces, 
\\hich made the tree to grow from the water ^acks, from which 
thou didst gather the yellow berries? Ha, ha, our souls are 
hungry for yellow berries, we got not enough while on earth, 
and where we are, where we are, oh. King, and where thou 
comest soon, there is no gold to feed our hungry souls. 

7. And so we come, oh. King, wiith thee to dig. 

To dio- for our souls, for we buried them here. 



io6 THE STOEY OF THIl K\':W GOVERNMENT. 

With tlie pieces of gold, in the sacks of water, 

In the 3'ears of old and tOie tale forever, forever is told, 
Forever is told, is told, is told." 

8. And the King saw them as they digged, that their teeth 
chattered and their bodies shivered, their clothing was old, and 
worn and soiled and torn and their nakedness did show. 

9. AYith feverish haste he and the three did dig and dig all 
night long, hoping each time to find a piece of gold, but all they 
found in the places whei-e they had ])lanted the gold, was a worm, 
coiled up in a rotted sack. 

10. And when the streaks of morning did faintly show, the 
three shadowy forms, each clutcliing a rotted sack, did make to 
go. And as they ^vent they said — 'vHa, ha, oh Kimg, these 
worms with us and thee \\iU live. And in our consciences will 
feed and grow and never die, and thirst and thirst for watered 
stocks, \\'hich we have naught 'to give, tlio' e'er so much we fain 
woidd lie. 

11. Farwell, oh. King, 'twill not be long. 

When you with us will join the throug. 
Whose souls are dark and very lean. 

And consciences disturbed and mean." 

12. So the three 'spirits vanished and the King Aras left a'lone. 
In his hand a rotted sack he grasped, and from out it a worui 
did twist and coil, and around his neck it twined, and settled in 
his bosoui, and did fasten its fangs into his side and did eat and 
eat into his vitals. 

13. And he tried to shake it off, but it 'only held the tighter, 
and it grew and grew till it seemed to crowd out his life. 

14. Then the King in dire rlread turned and fled, but wliither 



THE THREEFOLD VISION OF KING KOLLIS. 107 

vTOiild he flee? The warm fastened istill deeper into his life. 

15. He gazed at his clothing, 'twas turned to rags and filth, and 
his nakedness did show. 

16. He ran with greater si>eed, and a^s he ran his eyes grew dim, 
then blind. 

IT. Then he heard voices, which cried: — 
"Behold, King Kollis comes. 

The great, the gTeat King Kollis. 
He hath left honor and truth, and runs 
To hide his pags and nakedness. 

^9>. Tla. ha! is this the mighty Eailroad King 
Who made the people fear: 
Whose praises great and small of menials did sing, 
C^ome, spirits of hades, draw near, 

19. ITo! kindred spirits of the King, 

In his hand no watered stocks he bringh, 
?)ut closely to his breast a worm doth cling, 
While judgment in his conscience Loudly rings. 

20. He seeks a place to hide, because he's blind, 

So likewise do those of his own kind. 
But from the gaze of knowing miind, 
Xo one a place to hide can find." 

21. And as the King ran it seemed as if his brain, and very 
being did shrivel with the flames of hell, and he shrieked aloud in 
his agony; then he awakened, and lo! 'twas only a dream. 

22. Buit try as he would, he could not forget it, gloomy fore- 
bodings did fill his mind. 

23. Nor did he get rest from the fears which tormen.ted him, 
till he sickened and died in the space of a very short time. 

24. Now the interpretation of the dreams and the manner of 



io8 THE STOHY OF THE ^EW GOVERNMENT. 

the King's death, is it not all shown in the "Book of the (Uironi- 
eles of the Kings of C^alifornia?" 

25. Hoi\v that the King could find none in aM the land to in- 
terpret the dream, nntil there was fonnd "The Prophet," skilled 
in all manner of interpretations of hard matters. 

26. He did not fear to tell the King to his fa.ee, all that the 
dream did signify, and ho^v that there should arise a power in 
the midst of the people, and hv the people of The New (xovern- 
ment which would grow quietly, steadily and mightily and ovei- 
throw the works of the King and make them desolate, and all 
others like unto him and their works, of what manner of sort 
they were, which could not he done by all tlie mighty powers of 
parties which had afore time tried. 

27. That the great highroads which he had huilded should li(^ 
desolate for want of traffic and the King's revenue he cut off; 

28. And moreover, in the place of these roads should he 
huilded mightier, and peace and prosperity should hover with 
bright wings over the happy habitations of those whose burdens 
the new highroads did carry and whose every want they did 
supply. 

29. And how he, the King, should die in misery and desola- 
tioai of soul, unhonored, unloved, unwept, and go quickly unto 
his own place which be had prepared for himself, and dwell in 
the thick darkness amid spirits of his owm kind. Living in pov- 
erty of soul, with only the recollection of his ill gotten grains to 
comfort him. 

30. And how King Kollis at last, to quiet his conscience, and 
in the face of death, for the repose of his soul, did give greatly 
of his mighty pc^sessioms unto The New (Tovernment, is it not 
all recorded? 



MUNICIPAL NEW GOVERNMENT. 109 

CHAPTER Vn. 



MUNICIPAL "NEW (40A^EPNMENT.*' 



The New (xoveriimeut Supercedes the Old — Method of Taxation- 
Control of AYaterworks, Iji^htinjr, Telephone, Street Railroads, Ferry- 
boats and Local Railroads — (Jreat Activity in Improvements — Social 
Changes — Decline of Denominational Interest — Reiy:n of the Principles 
of Ti-nth. 



Four years liad ])ass('(l since tlio start of The New Govern- 
iiieut. ]t was the year of general elections. 

AVliat would be the outcome? was the universal enquiry. 

'J'hei-e was hut one answer. The New Government would have 
entire control of municipal aifairs, in San Francisco, at least, 
and in many other cities as well. 

The hahinco of power had 1)een in tlu' liands of the citizens 
of The Xew (Government for some time, and they were only wait- 
ing- for a convenient occasion to control all public matters. 

It had made itself strongly felt already in municipal doings, 
and those \\ho had for long time held out against the New In- 
stitution, ra])idly fell into its folds towards the close of the 
iminicipal term. 

I'he prediction was true. The administration of all municii)al 
affairs passed into the hands of The New Government. 

In wluit manner the House would operate, and so affect the 
interest of ])rivate ca])ital and cor]>orate concern, was now a ques- 
tion of much s])eculation. Nearly all of the small business houses 
and manufactories had already ceased individual efforts. The 
gas, electric, telephone, water, ferry boat and street railroad com- 
])anies still continued to levy their heavy tax on the people. 

The franchise lacing in the hands of the citizens, the question 



no THE STORY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT. 

was easily settled. 

As it was the policy of The New Government to deal with all 
public matters in a manner productive of the highest good and 
interests of its citizens in common, and of the individual in the 
end; so there w^as bnt one course to pursue, viz.: to consider those 
interests, and act accordingly. 

As will be seen, every department of the Government was 
greatly augmented. A large army of officials was required to 
carry on the increased duties. 

There was no confusion in the assumption of municipal Gov- 
ernment. The New Government was already tried and experi- 
enced in all of its departmental workings, and readily adjusted 
itself to its enlarged scope of work. 

The beautiful City Hall, which was built a few years before, 
now became the centre of operation. 

The demands for reform, adjustment, and re-adjustment, and 
extension in all directions, pressed upon the House of Business. 
Much necessary time was involved in the many changes and 
adaptation to the new situation. But when the machinery of 
The New Government once swung into full operation, with abso- 
lute power, the changes were as many, and as marvelous as the 
wonders of the fabulous age. 

There was a very large sum of money in the Treasury to 
operate with, and it was used with discretion. 

One of the first laws passed, was a change in the method of 
taxation. Taxes were removed from all personal property and 
improvements, and levied, alone, upon real estate. 

The value of improvements and utilization of ground, deter- 
mined the value of the land so used, and the surrounding district, 
and hence its just appraisement for taxation. There was one 
speedy result of this process, which, while it was not the intent. 



MUNICIPxVL N^EW (lOVERNMENT. 1 1 1 

became the end. It was only the sequence of a jnst hiw, and 
natural in its operation. 

The owner of land, who could not utilize it to obtain an in- 
come, had no use for it, since it became a source of continual 
heavy expense. 

He could not build business property upon it for himself, nor 
for rental, since The Xew Government did all the business and 
had no need to rent his property, and he was not able to compete 
in business with the Government. So there were but two courses 
left for him, either to keep his land and pay taxes, and so profit 
the Government — which was satisfactory; or sell it to the Gov- 
ernment, and escape his tax, which he generally did. What was 
true with reference to all lots used for business property, such as 
mauu factories, stores, othces, depots, eating places, hotels, lodg- 
ing houses, etc., was also true of residence lots. The owners 
could find uo parlies to rent their buildings to, since the rents 
were reduced very low by the Government, and the buildings 
erected at a cost, which the private builder could not compete 
with. Hence, all lots not occupied by his own residence, for his 
own use, were speedily sold unto the Government at its appraise- 
ment, and so he thus escaped the burden of its care and taxation 
which outweighed the possible returns if he held it for specula- 
tion, in the hopes of one day selling to the Government at a 
good figure. 

The question of public ownership of water works was consid- 
ered. The A])]n-aisal C^ommittee made careful estimates of the 
cost of construction of new works, but it was finally decided by 
the House to purchase the Spring Valley Works, then controlling 
the su])ply of city water. The sum of $16,000,000 was agreed 
u])on, and after the decisive vote by the citizens and enabling 
act of Legislature, the S])ring Valley Water (^om])any turned 



112 THE STOKY OF THE NEW GOVEKNMENT. 

over its great system to the people of San Francisco. The bonds 
bore a very low rate of interest for a limited time, and were not 
bought in Europe. The wealthy citizens of San Francisco gladly 
took them, for interest values were rapidly declining. The result 
of the new control was, that the burden of taxes for water expense 
fell almost wholly upon land owners and the consumers of water 
were liberated from their previous heavy water tax. 

As the policy of the Government was "Justice to all," no undue 
advantage was taken of any individual or corporation. 

An estimate was made as to the Governmental cost of gas and 
electric plants to light the city, after the latest and most ap- 
proved methods of modern lighting; and, as to the practical 
value of the Gas and Electric Companies' plants then in use, 
for such service. An offer was made to the companies, which 
had consolidated, in accordance with such estimates, which was 
accepted. 

Of course, this powerful corporation did not relinquish its 
stronghold on the people without a struggle. The New Govern- 
ment did not parley with any man or set of men, when it pro- 
posed to do a thing, it proceeded quietly to do it, and that meant 
death to any person or body of persons who opposed. 

The greatest victory of the citizens in municipal Governmenc 
was to be scored over the street railroad companies. Now, the 
hand and power of the great Railroad which had reigned so long 
with growing control over California, was to be tried with the 
people clad in their armor of vested Government. 

The Appraisal Committee sat as the gods who groimd out each 
mans' or corporations' grist. 

Again they made estimates and determined the fares, and the 
Secretary of Transportation made regulations for the roads. This 
was too arbitrary for a company which had for so long had tiie 
arbitrarv all on its own side. 



MUNICIPAL NEAY GOVEKNMENT. 113 

The Eailroads said that it was impossible to increase their force 
of employees, pay higher wages, and work them less hours, im- 
prove their road beds and rolling stock, and better their ac- 
commodations, and lower their fares at the same time. 

The contest was sliort and bitter. It could not be long, for 
it was contrary to tlie policy of The New Government. 

The companies either had to conform to tlie new regulations 
which were for the best interests of the people, or submit to the 
Secretary of Transportation to make the regulations for them. 

The result of it all was, that, after a speedy decision by the 
Local Court of Judges, the roads were condemned to public use. 
It was carried to the State Legislature and was not decided until 
after the State Organization of The New Government, and was 
til en speedily settled, according to the terms of the city charter. 

Scarcely had the Secretary of Transportation and Communica- 
tion got under good control the Water, Lighting and Street Rail- 
road systems, when the ever progressive body of business repre- 
sentatives declared for the Telephone and Ferry Boat. It is need- 
less to give the detail of how the Ferry Boat and Local Railroad 
systems of San Francisco, Oakland and suburban towns passed 
under the ownership and management of the people. Not, how- 
ever, without a great struggle, did the coils of the giant corpora- 
tion slowly unwind from the public interest. It was a great day 
for the cities of the Bay when they were freed from the local 
restraint and burdens of corporate rule. 

Corporate power was now feeling very forcibly the People 
]iower, not only in California cities, but in many cities of the 
East, which were nearly, if not wholly, under New Government 
management. 

The wheels of The New Government car now began to turn 
swiftly. Not only was the system making rapid strides in the 



114 THE STORY OF TIDl KEW GOVERNMENT. 

direction we have indicated, but the Secretaries of the other de- 
partments were equally vigilant and aggressive. 

The progress of one department did not retard the advance of 
the others. 

Great changes took place in the Department of Building and 
Improvement. There was one constant scene of activity all along 
the lines, money was now no object. There was abundance for 
all improvement and extension purposes. It was kept constantly 
in circulation. Everybody was busy. People began to be very 
happy. Work for all, and money for all. 

As fast as the land passed into the hands of the Government 
it was utilized for some purpose. Buildings were torn down and 
beautiful structures erected in their places. Old street pavements 
were torn up, and new laid. Dilapidated portions of town were 
annihilated. 

Supply depots, classified manufactures, warehouses, etc., were 
grouped in centers, and possessed conveniences, advantages and 
sanitation, with labor-saving machinery to the utmost that mod- 
ern skill could devise. 

No more did the working man fight against labor-saving ma- 
chinery. He welcomed it as his best friend. The inventions of 
man's brain were no longer used for private or capital interests, 
to supersede the laborer and drive him from earning his honest 
bread. 

The creation of genius were utilized by The New Government, 
the wise fostering mother, for the benefit of all. 

People who lived before in crowded tenement districts were 
moved out into cottages or more commodious tenements. These, 
being rented from the Government, were directly under con- 
stant inspection and regulation, consequently squalidness and 
filth began to disappear rapidly, together with the vicious inter- 



MUNICIPAL NEW GOVEENMENT. 1 1 5 

course and habits of densely jjopulated places. As will be seen, 
the very fact of better surroundings and new regulations went 
far towards creating a desire for education, culture and respect- 
ability, ^lany persons who had never owned a foot of ground 
were now able to purchase little homes from the Government on 
favorable temis. The roving, discontented spirit, which so char- 
acterized Western life began to disappear. People for the first 
time in their lives settled down to make a home. There was no 
longer any fear of Government instability. They were assured 
of an income in health, or in sickness, if they had Government 
insurance. While the majority of citizens at this stage of The 
New Government history rented their homes, yet many pur- 
cbased lots at ])rices according to location and character, and in 
keej^iug with their means. None bought land they could not 
utilize. 

There was no interest on unpaid balance of installments. The 
Government would buy back land and improvements at any 
time. 

People were able, corresponding to their ambition, energies 
and capacity, to have homes, according to taste, in a location de- 
sired; to rent them indefinitely, or to own them. They might 
have as small a place or as large as they wished. They were 
privileged to change at any time. They could have their house 
and grounds plain, or adorn and beautify them as much as they 
])leased. In addition to perfect sanitation, each house had the 
most approved system of lighting, together with telephone ser- 
vice. 

The Department of Public Order, made excellent showing in 
a short time. A splendid body of Peace Officers, loyal to the 
l)est interests of The New Government, carried out their com- 
mission with courage, determination and faithfulness: the result 



1 16 THE STORY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT. 

of which was in acordance with reform regulations, that all pub- 
lie places of immorality, low grade theaters and shows, under- 
ground dance and beer halls, saloons and like places were closed, 
never to be opened again. 

Amusements were elevated to a higher plane. Liquor of all 
kinds up to Government test was to be obtained only at The New 
Government eating and refreshment .houses and hotels, as well 
as sold at the supply stores as any other commodity. 

The question of one day in seven for rest was settled by popu- 
lar vote, Sunday being observed. 

As it was simply a matter of impossibility for Government to 
provide a rest day to suit all religious bodies, it acted upon the 
principle, that, as nature provided a day in seven for rest, and 
as experience has demonstrated, a day in seven was needed for 
rest: therefore, one day in seven must be devoted to rest, as far 
as practicable. And, as there was no way of determining that 
day to the satisfaction of all, it must be determined by the ma- 
jority sentiment, on the principle, that the interest of the in- 
dividual, or the few, must give way to the interest of the many. 

All work necessary in public service on that day was done h\ 
extra force, four hours being the time of labor. 

The ordinary work day was eight hours in length. Where work 
had to be carried on twenty-four hours in the day, the relays were 
from 12 a. m. to 8 a. m., from 8 a. m. to 4 p. m., and from 
4 p. m. to 12 midnight, thus, no one was required to work but half 
of natures' time for sleep, and in such cases extra pay was given. 

Street-walkers, burglars, highwaymen, vagrants, beggars^ 
toughs and the like, began to disappear rapidly from San Fran- 
cisco; their hiding-holes, places of resort and debauchery, and 
cheap eating houses were gone. 

The New Government had no places for public alms. To 



MUNICIPAL NEW GOYEKNMENT. 117 

give in charity, as was t]ie old custom, was contrary to her Con- 
stitution (see Fundamental Law (^), consequently, the citizens, 
knowing the avowed policy of their Covernment, refused to give 
anything away, but directed the medicants to the Department 
of Eeform and Protection. All were provided for, but they 
were obliged to ]y<i\ for it either in work or money, if they were 
able to earn it, if not, they were taken to the hospital, and wlien 
restored to strength, were given employment suitable to their 
condition, be they young, middle-aged or old, male or female, 
on the princi])le embodied in (Fundamental Laws 2 and 5.) 

So, all who before lived off public benefactions, either had 
to work, or move to more congenial quarters, which were fast 
becoming a thing of the past. 

As industry and improvement was the spirit of the move, 
it became infectious, and i^eo])le needed little urging to better 
themselves. 

As will be conceived, by this time the Department of Educa- 
tion and Culture had made very ra])id progress. Many church 
buildings of different denominations, in times past, were con- 
verted into these "Halls," and centers formed (see part IL, ch. 
IL), many of them embracing most of the Departments of Edu- 
cation and C^dture. 

The citizens who considered themselves within the bounds 
of these centers elected their own Minister of Public Instruction. 
.\s the interests of the people were common, their faith tended 
to ]>ecome common, especially since there was no agitation of 
reli'.'ious dogmas, for the Constitution forbade any sectarian 
reaching. (See Constitution, Article VII.) 

Apart from the Government, people still held in a degree, to 
denominational "isms," but since there was no necessity for the 
iireat Church P>odies, they began slowly to wane in their power 



ii8 THE STORY OF THE NEW GOVEENMENT. 

and control over those sections where The New Government 
was flourishing. It could not be expected that an institution, 
such as the visible organic church, characterised by its many 
strange and diversified opinions and practices, living upon and 
growing out of the shifting elements in man's nature, would 
cease to lose its hold upon him in a few brief years. 

However, people began to discern clearly by the light of 
Truth, which burned steadily from the Public Platform Teach- 
ing, the Class Eoom, the Legislative Halls and Courts of Jus- 
tice, that moral obligations and true life did not consist in 
creedal observances, but that the soul of man in his highest as- 
pirations could not embrace nor contain either in this life or the 
next, anything beyond that Avhich is set forth in the principles 
appended to chap. lY., part II. i; 

Since these principles constituted the foundation work for 
the structure of The New Government, and its citizens were 
enjoying the benefits and blessings of their application in every 
phase of public and private life, what need, indeed, of religious 
speculations or views, to mar the harmony of existing order, 
or supplement- that which satisfied the conscience and supplied 
the ideal of life and lead out the soul to its loftiest attainment. 

Such constant changes, such aggressive measures, such prog- 
ress of local governments, as we have outlined in this chapter, 
must result speedily in the further extension of local interests 
by cementing those interests in a State organization. This we 
will proceed to consider in another chapter. 



THE STATE NEW GOA^EEXMEXT. 119 

CHAPTER VIII. 



THE STATE XEW GOYERXMEXT. 



State Organization — The Results of Unrestricted Immigration- 
Agricultural Methods — Exodus from the Mountains and Froutiers- 
The Development of Mines, Etc. 



Four years more had come and gone. What remarkable 
changes, not onl}- for the City of San Francisco, but for other 
cities of California and throughout the United States. The 
eves of other nations were turned curiously upon the phenom- 
enal changes of social and industrial life in many sections of 
this country. 

The time had come for a State Organization. San Francisco 
took the initiative. The last Legislature was largely "Xew 
Government" citizens. There was but little opposition in the 
decisive vote. 

Upon the assnm]:)tion of State Government by the people, 
a day of great possibilities for the State of California was 
ushered in. 

Many large enterprises outside the limits and powers of local 
Governments were waiting to be launched. The State House 
of Biieiness entered upon its duties with all the spirit, energies 
and experience befitting a body of men with such honored trust. 
They had the confidence of the people, for they had been tried 
in responsible positions. 

It nov/ remained for these nien to demonstrate what could 
be done for a State, and in a State under the system of The 
Xe-w Government, which was never done, could never be done 
under any form of Government — past or then present. 

little had as yet been done by Local Governments in develop- 
ing agricultural interests, as Goveruuient farming. This prop- 



I20 THE STORY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT. 

erly belonged to the domain of State Government functions, al- 
though considerable gardenino; and dairying was carried on in 
the neighborhood of the local centers. Now, the secretaries of 
all departments had ample scope for operation in obedience to 
the many calls from all quarters. For a long time the Ameri- 
can farmer had been rapidly giving away to the more economical 
European agriculturalist. Cheap living and cheap labor of the 
foreigner had made it iriipossible for the American to compete 
witii uim m prices or products. He was driven to hire cheap 
foreign labor, if he hoped to continue in business. This meant 
a disreputable name for himself, and throwing out of employ- 
ment great numbers of American laborers of both sexes. As 
a result, farms became burdened with mortgages, and steadily 
passed into the hands of the foreigner. People drifted hither 
and thither and flowed into the centers of population. Trades 
and professions were over-crowded. People bought and lived 
sparingly, and prices continued to go lower and lower, while the 
cheap labor did the work on farms, gardens, orchards, dairies, 
etc. 

Many censured the policy of Government in encouraging un- 
restricted immigration for years, chiefly in the interests of trans- 
portafion companies. The country was unable to assimilate the 
vast swarms that came to its shores. These hordes had to live. 
Their habits of life in Europe and Asia enabled them to live 
in paradise in the Ignited States, on what was starvation rates 
to the American citizen, who looked helplessly on, while his 
strange brother, quite at home with cheap fare, took his place, 
work and living, and soon took his home. The old homestead.--^ 
in the East and \yest were bonght by the stranger. Home set- 
tlements and communities were broken up. Old ties and as- 
sociations were supplanted by inharmony and discontent; and 



THE STATE NEW (lOYEUNMENT. 121 

wliat was true of agrieiiltiiral life, was in a measure true of 
mining, lumbering and manufacturing centers. Many had be- 
wailed this lamentable condition which prevailed' universally 
over the country, and declared that it was now too late to rem- 
edy tbe situation, and that the ])oor American citizen, proud as 
he was of his home and his country, must part with his extrava- 
gant notions and settle down to contented serfdom. 

Such was the condition, barely hinted at. when The Xew 
(Government began operations in the centers of population, the 
natural order, and was now ready through State organization, 
to ])ermeate to the outermost circles and revolutionize by its 
genius all State and National life. 

Large sections of land were ])iirchasecl by the State in the 
neighborhood of local centers. 'I'hese tracts of land were de- 
voted to orcharding, grains, hay, vegetables, dairying, stock- 
raising, cotton growing, viticulture. a])iaries, silk growing, etc. 
The lands were well cultivated and enriched by fertilizers and 
rest. All that scientific farming could do was not spared. Abun- 
dant crops and returns repaid the efforts. Every convenience 
facihtated labors. The poor farm-houses, stables and barns dis- 
n]i])eared. Where necessary, commodious buildings for the ac- 
commodation of stock were erected. The town was the sleep- 
ing and resting place of the laborers. They were carried to and 
from their work by the s\rift electric car. Electric plows, culti- 
vators, harvesters, derricks, elevators, etc., did all the heavy 
work. The farm laborer sang with glee at his duties, for he 
no longer toiled the weary sixteen hours a day as he used to. 
The genius of man's brain, by invention, wrought out for him 
all manner of mechanical device to spare him toil, and shortened 
his hours of work. The milkman's wagon no longer rattled on 
the cobbles at night to disturb the midnight sleeper and cripple 



122 THE STOEY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT. 

the driver with rheumatism and premature okl age, through 
exposure in all weathers. 

The needless waste of time and energies of a half-a-dozen 
competitive dairymen to serve as many customers in a single row 
of houses, was no longer known. Pure milk up to standard in- 
spection was served from Government depots in neighboorhood 
quarters. 

Farm life, where introduced as described, was no longer dis- 
tasteful and isolated. Many courted it. The duties were light, 
the hours of labor short, and the privileges of town life none 
were obliged to forego. For a time some successful farmers and 
gardeners tried to compete with the Government, but soon gave 
up. Wherever the Government owned land, the surrounding 
districts increased in value, and consequently the taxes became 
correspondingly heavy in order to bear its proportion of contri- 
bution to the public benefit. As a result, farming lands passed 
quickly into the hands of the Government. They were no long- 
er profitable to the possessor and so reverted to the rightful 
owner. 

It was a glad day of relief for multitudes of poor families, shut 
out from the world and social life, struggling on the frontier, 
or in out-of-the-way places in mountain valleys, ravines, hill- 
sides and almost barren districts. Long had they been trying 
to make little homes for themselves against mighty odds. Per- 
sonally did I meet many who had never seen a street car, nor 
heard the screech of a locomotive, and yet had lived to be 
parents. 

They began to leave these places they had called homes and 
came gladly in great numbers to the open arms, wide, ready and 
able to fold them to her bosom and give these, for long unpriv- 
ileged, the blessings of her rich stores and motherly care. 



THE STATE XEW GOYEEXMENT. 123 

The mountains and remote valleys and dry wastes became 
ranges for herds of cattle and sheep. Even stock-raising and 
herding were made pleasant and light, by systematized methods, 
compared with the old ways. 

There was still opportunity and privilege for any to seclude 
themselves in solitary life if they so desired. 

The liberty of all was in no wise impaired. 

As will be readily conceived, the aspect of the country was 
greatly clianged. In phice of the muddy roads in ^vdnter and 
dusty highways in summer, there were splendidly macadamized 
roads and mountain grades. Car lines, as a network, connected 
all towns. 

The old lines of railroads and telegraphs had been condemned 
to public use. Double lines of rails were laid, and road-beds 
made perfect for swift locomotion. There was speedy connec- 
tion and constant traffic in all directions, both by land and 
water. Waterways were opened, docks and wharves built to ac- 
commodate increased traffic. The Xew Government bought 
or built her own vessels and crafts of every nature, for transport- 
ation and commerce. 

]\Iines of all kinds were bought and worked by Government. 

The means and ways for the building of roads, tunneling, con- 
struction of reservoirs, ditches, turning of water courses, etc., 
and the employment of the latest improved mining machinery 
was no barrier to the perfect equipment and working of mines. 

r)elts of different species of timber were planted for future 
use. Eivers were utilized. Great canals constructed for irri- 
gation purposes made desert and dry places to blossom. The 
busy hand of industry laid hold of and dragged from nature's 
hiding-places, rocks and marble, clay and minerals, coal and oil 
in great quantities from California's treasure stores. 



124 THE STOEY OF THE NEW GCYEENMENT. 

Space nor time will permit of an extended depcription of these 
vast changes by New Grovernment life. What was trne of 
California was in a measure trne of other States. So rapid had 
been the move all over the country^ that the old National Gov- 
ernment had been crowded ont of all semblance of self. 

The eventful day was at hand, when the greatest of all na- 
tions shonld shine in the glory of her might and beanty — a com- 
monwealth nnparalleled in the history of peoples, dilfnsing her 
light and benedictions npon the nations of the world. 

CHAPTEE IX. 



THE Nx\TIONAL NEW GOYEENMENT. 

The Old Government Dies— Changes Under the New Government- 
Navy and Army — Arbitration — Tariff Removed — National Credit — Money 
Question Settled — Brokers', Gamblers' and Bankers, Jttusiness Gone- 
Exodus of Chinese — How Foreign Immigration was Treated — Treat- 
ment of the Indian — The Negro; His Second Emancipation — Race 
Problem. 



Still another fonr years and the Old Government yielded up 
the ghost. 

The last political party in power had been a reform body and 
worked in sympathy with The New Government interests 
thronghont the Union. It was largely composed of New Gov- 
ernment citizens. At the time of. General Election a ratifying 
convention was held. The New Government National Con- 
stitntion was confirmed, and so the United" States passed mider 
the jnrisdiction of the National New Government. 

There were no remarkable changes. The States were already 
engaged in active development of their particnlar resources. By 
the National. snperAdsion, their respective interests were more 



THE XATTOXAL XEW GOVEEmiEXT. 125 

closely bound. There was now a more eqnal distribution and 
direction of energies; a parental head supplied all their various 
demands. Their interests were national and the National Gov- 
ernment attended to them at home and abroad. 

The changes under the National House were not abrupt, but 
as rapidl}^ as the situation demanded. 

The nav}^ and standing army were slowly dismantled. Forti- 
fications were kept in repair only. The militia service was, 
liowever, continued. Cruisers and one or two men-of-war con- 
stituted the naval strength and expense, sufficient to protect the 
(Government's commercial interests. The settlement of interna- 
tional questions of dispute by arbitration had been agitated for 
years and had gained much favor among nations. After the 
continental disturbances of '08 and '07 this principle was gen- 
erally adopted. 

The peaceful, rather than belligerent, attitude of the United 
States in discontinuing her navy and army and devoting herself 
to internal development and ])rogress had a salutary effect upon 
other nations. 

The tariff' on imports was removed, as it was no longer neces- 
sary to protect home industries, since the Constitution required 
its citizens to purchase entirely home products to the extent 
of such ])roductions and when the (lovernment did not cause or 
could not produce at home such commodities, then her ports 
were open to foreign productions without duty. (See Depart- 
mental Workings, part 1st, and Fundamental Law 3.) 

The growing wealth, internal progress and productions of the 
Fnited States made her first among the nations in commer- 
cial credit. Her indebtedness rapidly diminished. Her circul- 
ating medium counterbalanced her productions and capacity 
for ju'oduction and once for all settled the long-vexed money 



126 THE STOEY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT. 

question. No longer was it deemed necessary for the Govern- 
ment to issue bonds in order to get money in a financial depres- 
sion. It had no more financial depressions, nor could it have 
any under its system of management. It agreed to give all of 
its citizens work under certain conditions, and promised to pay 
them for that work, in houses, land, clothing, food, luxuries, 
and credit abroad. And to make good that promise it gave them 
a convenient medium with a stamp, and "I promise to pay." The 
Government had the means to pay. Its citizens knew it and 
the world knew it. It could export dollar for dollar in worth, 
to its imports, and have large credits. Its imports were light, 
since its productions were varied and great; speculating and 
gambling in grain, stocks and money became a thing of the past. 
Wall Street and stock exchanges figured only as grim skeletons 
in the national history, no longer able to paralyze trade and 
industry with their national life. 

There was no place in The New Government for the money 
and stock-broker. He had to change his vocation for an honest 
calling. 

The national bankers could not, by all of their persuasions in 
Congress assembled, induce The New Government to beheve 
that it was a wise and shrewd thing for it to engage them to carry 
on its money business. The Government could not, by any 
argument, conceive how it was necessary for it to turn over its 
banking affairs to private individuals; providing a capital for 
them and a heavy bonus besides; issuing money made expressly 
for their use, at the same time giving them its financial credit. 
It preferred to issue its own money, be its own credit and do its 
own banking. So the banker's hope of gain was gone and he 
had to content himself with a position in The New Govern- 
ment banks at a fair salary, the price of his service and skill. 



THE NATIONAL NEW GOVERNMENT. 127 

The demoralizing effect of unrestricted immigration for jeRYS 
had caused the voice of remonstrance to he heard in pohtical 
platforms preceding the estahlishment of The New Govern- 
ment. Never could this evil he corrected, until done hy na- 
tional intervention, according to local methods, as had heen fol- 
lowed out from the first, "vdz: Each Local Government provided 
work for its citizens: 1st, according to its funds and resources; 
2nd, according to the rank of registration and qualifications of 
candidates; 3rd, requiring a given length of time for residence 
within the bounds of the Government, corresponding to its abil- 
ity to provide employment, which depended upon the supply of 
a]iplicants, and its need of em]:)loyees of any given grade. 

This system did for (California what petitions and legislation 
had failed to do for years, viz: The settlement of the Chinese 
question. For many many years had the Ghinaman enriched 
liimself and mother home by the gold he gathered from the gold 
mines, and railroads, and factories, and shops, and gardens, and 
farms, and orchards, and laundries, and kitchens, carrying it 
away l3odily, not even leaving his bones to enrich the depleted 
land of the setting sun. 

The Chinese merchants and slave owners, and craftsmen, 
grew opulent on the fat things of California, while the white 
servant and laborer, with hungry stomaclis, in late years, 
watched the Chinaman eat his rice, lie down to sleep in his 
suu)ky den, or cozy employer's quarters, and rise up to do the 
work, he or she felt they ought to do. But worse than this, the 
cunning ]\Iongol taught his employer's son and daughter to 
smoke the deadly drug and profited by their helpless infatuation, 
and led them into the stupif\ing dens of infamy in the damnable 
hells of Chinese quarters, where many a handsome, promising 
bov or o-irl. gome mother's or father's pride and hope, was strick- 



128 THE STOEY OF THIl KEW GOVEENMENT. 

en with the withering blast, and dropped into an untimely 
grave. The Chinese, with their foreign habits, practices and 
inilnence, were long a blotch on the fair prospects of California. 
What course could be taken to remove the blotch, so that no 
violence nor injustice be done the yellows-skinned brother, was 
the problem. The New Government solved it. The Local 
Government was a Government within a Government, of and by 
American citizens. 1st, the Constitution and laws required 
qualifications which the Chinese, narticularly, could not or would 
not conform to; 2nd, the citizens bought their own products, and 
in the course of the growth of Government, imported direct from 
C'hina what was required; 3rd, it employed its citizens at all 
times where work had to be done, excepting in rare cases, where 
w^hit^ help would not serve. 

Now, cheap service was dispensed with. The Chinaman 
rented land, did not own it. His vegetable market was largely 
gone. He could no longer pav heavy rents. He had little mar- 
kets for boots and shoes and garments, and none needed his 
laundry. The Commissioners of Health and Peace renovated 
his abode. He had to change his quarters and pay higher rents 
and live like a civilized man. What was he to do? He had to 
do something. There was a general exodus from San Francis- 
co to other parts; but The New Government spread. It gave 
him "no rest for the sole of his foot." It was not his enemy. 
It was the inevitable law of evolution which forced him on and 
up, and The New Government was the instrument of his 
progress. "John" fell back helpless at every move. The gain 
of thes great Chinese companies, slave owners was gone. The 
Chinaman became a pensioner for boimty. The Constitution 
forbade giving without return. The Government had no work 
for the Chinaman. Its hands were full in taking care of its 



THE XATIOXAL XEW GOVERNMENT. 129 

own children. The Chinaman belonged to China. But the 
(Tovernment would not let him die on its doorstep. It provided 
a fund for passage hack to the Celestial Empire for all who de- 
sired to go. 

The Chinaman had to eat; to eat he must work. Work for 
him, there was none. There was but one alternative, he must 
bid farewell to the shores of promise and turn his face and flesh 
to the land where he always expected his bones should lie. 

The government was not cruel. It was not even unjust. It 
used no force. ]^)iit it sat as the "gods" and ground out the 
future fate of the Chinaman. 

The hand of vengeance that had been stayed for years, at last 
fell upon the yellow-hued Celestial. He who had cursed by his 
association and influence his white brother and driven many a 
sorrow-stricken unfortunate woman to desolation and death, 
v\'as in turn displaced by his white brother and driven by the 
iron hand of fate, back to the poverty of his native land, to abide 
till the wheels of progress should drag him upward after the 
throes of national convulsion. We do not speak of the utter ex- 
termination of the Chinese from the United States. There were 
still many faithful ones retained in domestic service and in cer- 
tain kinds of work injurious to health, and menial tasks in which 
it was difficult to get white men to serve. Let not the humane 
reader misunderstand and think that it was not the genius of 
the Constitution of the New Government to consider the China- 
man's work just as valuable as the white man's, or that he had 
not rights which were as sacred as that of its citizens, because he 
was thus crowded out of home and place. It was simply the 
natural sequence of a progressive move of stagnated and retro- 
gressive, industrial and civil life. The Chinese had been an in- 
cubus on California life. When the body politic arose and in 



130 THE STORY OF THE IsTEW rTOVEE:r^MENT. 

the energy of its being, stirred that hfe to its depths, then the 
extraneous matter was sloughed off, and what was true of the 
Chinese was also true of other low classes. 

Again, the workings of The New Government was in har- 
mony with natural law. Justice weighed in her balance, all her 
citizens and dependents. The higher the order of intellect and 
ability, the higher the position in poM er and activity in govern- 
ment service. The lower the order of intellect and animal 
strength, the lower in servile position. And so all were rele- 
gated to their true sphere in the great common life; and this 
law and its results prevailed throughout the successive years 
of the (Tovernment's growth. 

The status of supply and demand of labor and skilled service 
in the Local and State Governments had acted as a governor on 
the foreign immigration to a certain extent, but could not 
thoroughly control the natural influx of foreigners seeking to 
better their conditions in a country which promised so much. 

Now, the requirements of Local and State Governments were 
unified and centralized in their National Head; and so it be- 
came as easy for the National Government to legislate for. the 
benefit of all, as for either the State or Local Governments to 
prescribe for its individual self; therefore the restriction of im- 
migration was in harmony with the Constitution. 

(See Fundamental Laws and Bureau of Trades, Labor and 
Professions and Basic Principles.) 

There was virtually no restriction of immigration. All na- 
tionalities were privileged to come to the shores and find a 
home in the land of progress. 

But the government did have a right to say whether it would 
employ them in its service or not. A given length of time Avas 
required for residence before citizenship was granted, then the 



THE XATIOXAL XEAY GOVEENMENT. 131 

newly made citizen waited his call for service. (See Bureau of 
Trades, Labor and Profession.) 

The result of this wise po]icy was that all who immigrated 
to this country, knowing the conditions of residence and service, 
came prepared. 

Thus ithe low cosmopolitan element that so demoralized 
national life in the United States were effectually barred from 
entrance. The steamship companies, which for so long carried 
on a lucrative traffic by the aid of the paid sanction of govern- 
ment, found it no longer profitable to transport human heads 
for a few dollars a piece, for the sole purpose of enriching their 
private coffers by flooding the country with a class of people 
destructive to the nation's prosperity and happiness. The 
vicious principle, which had wrought so much evil in America, 
of sacrificing the public good for private enrichment or aggrand- 
izement, rested in its grave with the curse of the spirit of the 
new move upon it. 

The Basic Principles and Fundamental Laws were the stand- 
ards of measurements in dealing with the Indian and Negro, the 
children of adoption. 

The white man had taken the Indian's home and crowded 
him to narrow limits. He could not give him back his broad 
domain, but he could reach out his hand and guide the last of 
a noble race to a higher sphere. What was good for the white 
man, was good for the red man, and so under a different regime 
by new industrial and educational methods, the red man's fingers 
and brain were taught to labor and his soul to expand. Thus 
the Indian, in the decline and setting of his race, came into his 
true inheritance, viz., the enjoyment of the common good for 
all, an equality with his strange brethren and an independent 
life. 



132 THE STORY OF THE ^nEW GOVEENMENT. 

The 'New Government had no place for the Indian in his 
wild^ uncivihzed Hfe, and so still narrowed his sphere. Little 
by little it forced him to industry^ education and culture. His 
natural forces were turned universally into a new channel of 
activity. His new environments civilized and cultured him. 
The old stock passed away^ the young generation fed on new 
life. The New Government folded him in its bosom, loved and 
blessed him with his just rights. Eelinement elevated to a 
higher life. He could not go back. He did not want to go 
back. His natural dignity was heightened. His face grew 
handsomer; his skin whiter. He mingled and inter- 
mingled with the whites in marriage. The voice of pro- 
phecy declares — "the time will come when the Indian is no 
more." For he will have reached the high end of his course. 
The glory of the Indian as a red man was one glory; but the 
glory of the Indian as a white man, is a greater glory, and his 
final royal inheritance. 

For long the race problem had agitated social and civil life 
in certain sections of the country. The situation became more 
difficult as the colored race multiplied. 

Was there a home and an opportunity for the black people 
in the Great Empire of the Western World? The ISTew Gov- 
ernment settled the question. The Negro came not here of his 
own choice. 

He purchased an inheritance, in the land by his body and 
soul. These he bartered, unwittingly, 'tis true, for the privilege 
to live; but no one granted him right of choice. The mute ap- 
peals of the driven slave for love, justice and equal rights, fell 
upon the deaf ears of those who demanded for themselves these 
rights of the free-born, but refused to accord them to the Negro, 
the children of the same Creator. 



THE XATIOXAL XEW GOYEENMENT. 133 

Those appeals and century cries, rose as vapor and descended 
in a deluge of blood, in obedience to the eternal law of justice. 

The 1)1 ack race was freed, but left helpless in the power of ig- 
norance and illiteracy. 

To fight his upward way in opi)osition to the bitter antipathy 
of his wJiite neig]i])or, or dwell on, in the wretchedness and mise- 
ry of his second bondage was his fate. The bright scintillations 
of the native genius which flashed from his dark abode de- 
manded with no uncertain sound, a recognition of his equal 
rights, the gift of God. 

The New Government was his second Lincoln. Fnder its 
l)rotccting wing his rights were sacred. It recognized his merits 
and possibilities. It gave ]iim a ^\'ide place, most fitting to him, 
in domestic service and an opportunity and necessity for his 
uatui-al strength in arduous tasks, but witli nature's recom- 
pense. 

The New Government regime dispersed his ignorance elevated 
liim out of his squaliduess and laid upon his sluggish blood the 
necessity for activity. It exalted his surroundings and gave 
hiui a purpose in life. IVv tlie law of progress and evolution, 
tlirough association, intellectual environment and culture, his 
features grew juore regular, his skin wliiter and his fecundity 
less. 

.\s tlie negro rose intellectually, socially and morally, his 
equality with the white race became more marked. Golor dis- 
tinction grew less objectionable. His growing refinement made 
him more desirable. His native graces, with culture, made up 
on the one hand, what he lacked in color on the other. He 
found himself superior in attainments to certain strata of the 
white race. He was willing to exchange all for whiteness of 
slxiu. He followed the instincts of his race, and unconsciouslv 



134 THE STOEY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT. 

worked out his destiny. These white classes prized the Negro's 
virtues. They made an exchange of color for genius and cul- 
ture. In the intermarriage they were recompensed and became, 
unconsciously, the factor in the destiny of the black race. Thus, 
though the Negro served long in bondage, both in the New 
World, as well as in the Old, at last, the day dawn of his glori- 
ous deliverance has come. The generations in bondage, of the 
slumbering dead, for centuries, may well gather to greet the gen- 
erations of the living and unborn, and rejoice together, that 
the day of God's promise has at last come; and the dark race, 
which inhabited an isolated land, dwelling in the thick jungles 
and forests, or sweltering in the hot sands, serving in captivity 
to all peoples, in all quarters of the earth, can hail with delight 
the advent of The New Government, which marches steadily 
forward, and with invincible key unlocks the realms of the fu- 
ture and flings open its wide possibilities to race and nation. 




PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. 1 3 5 

CHAPTER X. 



PUBLIC IXSTJTUTIOXS. 
LAW. 

LAW: Coiits of Jiidi?es — No Opposing Counsels— Equity Committees— 
Penalty of Bribery — Criminals' Trial and l*enalty. 

REFORMATORIES: How Conducted, PJxaminations, Duties and 
Studies — Incentive to Different J ^^*- 

PRISOXS: The Influence of Enobling Environments — Society Re- 
s])(>nsible for the Criminal — The Rationale of the New Gorernment 
Prison System — The Result of Half a Century of Progress. 

INSANE ASl'LI'MS: How New Government Methods Corrected 
Insanity bv Preventing it — Psvchic I orce in Cure. 

HOSPITALS — ORPHANAGES — BLND, DEAF AND DI^MB 
ASYLr:MS— HOMES OF REFUGE. 



Li the Local Govermnents tlie Judiciary consists of the At- 
lorney-in-Chief and assistants, first and second Judges of tlie 
Courts of Judges, viz.: The Civil, Criminal, Probate, Divorce, 
Maritime Courts, etc. These Judges have original jurisdiction, 
saving in cases of statute appeals. They have at all times the 
counsel of the Supreme Courts in complicated and difficult 
cases. 

Tliorc arc no juries, nor opposing counsels. An attorney, ac- 
cording to his order and appointment, elicits all the evidence in 
iho case on trial, in the hearing of the Judge. Where neces- 
sary, detectives are detailed to obtain conclusive facts. 

All technicalities of law are waived. Speedy decisions com- 
patible with the circumstances are rendered in accordance with 
equity. 

The Courts are, in fact. Courts of Equity. 

The State and j^ational Judiciaries are limited in their pow- 
ers and ])rerogatives. They cannot become aggressive, because 
of such liuiitations. 



1 36 THE STOKY OF THE NEW GOA^ERNMENT. 

They have no prerogative to supersede the enactments of the 
Honse, as was possible under the Old CTOvernrnent. They are 
required to administer the law according to statute. The mem- 
bers of these various Judiciaries, like all other representatives, 
managers and officials, are constantly amenable to the very 
law they administer. They are brought speedily to justice for 
omissions of duty and commissions of offense, by the people, 
who have entrusted to them the administration of the law, which 
they themselves enact through the House of Business. This 
is done by the terrible ballot, which the people constantly wield. 
The power and application of this is shown in Chapter XL 

Upon first thought the judicial system might seem like a 
backward move of obsolete and unsatisfactory methods of earlier 
times, but after mature reflection it will be seen that by the 
system of elections and true democratic government the people 
never for one moment lose their management of government, and 
have at all times a firm hold upon those whom they honor with 
an official, representative, managing or administrative position. 

No Attorney or Judge is permitted, under any consideration, 
to take fees. 

The costs of all actions at law are regulated and collected by 
the Equity Committee of Law Costs. These costs are sustained 
by the person found in the wrong. 

There is an Equity Committee of Hearings, corresponding to 
the former Grand Jury. 

There is also a Committee of Appeals. 

The penalty of taking or offering bribes is very great. It is 
a community, State or National disgrace from which it is hard 
to recover. The person is deposed from office and excluded 
from holding any position of trust, for a given length of time, 
depending upon the nature of the offense. 



PUBLIC IXSTITUTIOXS. 137 

CRIMINAL TEIAL AXD PEXALTY. 

After the indictment of a criminal, his trial is proceeded with 
as quickly as possible, and onl}- discontinued after evidence 
01 his innocence or guilt has been established. The penalty 
then immediately takes effect. Direct evidence is considered at 
any time and the criminal given the benefit. 

('a])ital punishment is abolished and instead, imprisonment 
for life. This, on the ground that man did not, cannot give 
life, hence has no right to destroy life, and furthermore the 
criminal is the creation of abnormal social conditions; and it is 
unnatural for a parent to destroy its progeny. The 'New Gov- 
ernment declares the natural order, and applies the true prin- 
ciples of propagation, as no known civil government of peo- 
])les (see chapter on ]\[arriage and Divorce.) 

In criminal cases, where the guilty one has deprived those de- 
])endent upon the injured or victim, of the means of liveli- 
hood, in whole or in part, he is made to sustain to the extent 
of his ability, such material injury. If the criminal has no 
means to make good such loss, then the ju'ofits of his labor or 
skill while undergoing his sentence, over and above his expense 
to government, goes to the support of those whom he has 
wronged. And if he has a family dependent upon him, then he 
labors for both. 



REFORMATORIES. 

In the reform systems introduced by The Xew Government, 
excellent oj)portunity was afforded to observe their effect, in 
a short space of time. Reform Schools were established at an 
early stage of the government's growth. The schools were for 
d)oth sexes. When the incorrigible were taken to the school, 
they were not permitted to associate promiscuously with the 



I 38 THE STOEY OF THE NEW GOYEENMENT. 

other inmates^ as was too often the case under the old system. 
This practice made these schools or houses of correction in 
many instances, only schools for greater degrees of vice. 

The child was examined phrenologically and otherwise, his 
or her nature, character, practices and habits were fully dis- 
covered, and the child treated, mentally, psychologically and 
pathologically. Astrological physiology and psychology played 
their im])ortant parts. The children Avere graded according to 
their degrees of viciousness. By this means, the child, young 
man or young woman, as the case might be, was not thrown into 
contact with a mind more vile than his or her own, until the 
moral consciousness was aroused sui!iciently to resist a tendency 
towards a more vicious condition. The inmates slept in single 
rooms^ all under the strictest surveillance. 

The waking hours were kept constantly occupied with work, 
rest or recreation. As was set forth in the Educational Depart- 
ment, the inmates or scholars, for such they were, only in a dif- 
ferent kind of a school and under a different regime, were 
under the constant supervision and attendance of their instruct- 
ors, during recreation as well as work hours. Hard physical 
exercise and labor formed a prominent part in the education. 
They were taught all manner of trades and crafts, the supply 
by government for land, machinery and appliances being ample 
for all needs. The scholar's mind and body were weary with the 
day's duties, so rest and sleep occupied the hours of night. 

There were no lectures on vice and immorality, but in the 
place, object lessons, prepared scientific and historical studies, 
special graduated courses in ethics, etc., all calculated to divert 
the mind from accustomed habits of thought. 

The child was everywhere surrounded with the suggestive 
of the beautiful, the good, the worthy. No rigorous discipline 



PUBLIC IXSTITUTIOXS. 139 

was resorted to, save in rare cases. As a result there was little 
desire to run awa)- from the school; and when such was the 
case, they invariahly returned, for it was a home, such as the 
boy or girl never had known. Love was the ruling spirit and 
the gauge of treatment. The child was treated as an unfortun- 
ate person, horn diseased with an abnormal nature. The sys- 
tem diagnosed the case accurately and set to work with all 
known methods of enlightened human progress to correct the 
deficiency. This was done, by first removing the causes which 
aggravated the 'evil. Then, supplying that which was lacking 
in the life to inspire and stimulate to new conditions. 

The soul was discovered to the child and drawn out and then 
there were engrafted within it the purposes of a new life and 
character. 

From the first the Schools or Eeformatories, the latter name 
being dropped, were a marked success. So successful was the 
system with the vicious young, that it was adopted with certain 
modifications and adai)tation8 to prison life. 



PRISONS. 

The imperfect description of the Reform School methods, 
applied in part to the Prison system, adopted by The New Gov- 
ernment. The appropriations were large and liberal to carry 
out an ideal system of prison management. 

The prisoner was examined and relegated to graduated cir- 
cles of prison life, after the manner we have already described. 
It was not an incarceration to an idle life, but to a life of service 
from the day of entrance. If the term was for a few days or 
weeks or months, it was work every day. 

The prisoner was treated as a hnuian being, and capable of 
better things. 



I40 THE STORY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT. 

A system of education adapted to his age and intelligence Avas 
provided and carried out along lines we have indicated. 

The long and constant association amid environments^ all 
designedly calculated to arouse the moral consciousness and 
sleeping soul, sooner or later had its desired effect of changing 
the current of thought and life. 

The theory acted upon was, that there was no human being 
so gross, vile and abandoned, but that would yield to the subtle 
influence of love, manifest through refining, ennobling and in- 
spiring influences; and these were all brought to bear. Music, 
applied studies, exalted ideals, psychic subjections and patho- 
logical experiments had their place in the system. 

Meat and all articles of food and drink which added fuel to 
the unbalanced mental or physiological conditions were unused. 

Constant effort was made to divert the mind from known con- 
ditions to unknown; to displace and reduce the abnormal de- 
velopment of faculties, by stimulating and augmenting the un- 
developed. To accomplish this, the aid of all human sciences 
was called in. 

The rationale was — is not a human being the greatest of all 
known creations; is he not capable of illimitable attainment; is 
he not worthy of all that human knowledge can do to perfect 
that creation; society endowed the criminal with an unbalanced 
nature; an abnormal development of certain faculties and a de- 
ficiency in others, thus depriving him of his inherent rights; 
therefore, society is obligated to correct the cyII by restoring 
to its member and offspring his Divine rights. 

To inflict a senseless punishment upon the criminal for doing 
Avhat society decreed him to do, by treating him as a wild beast, 
caging him as an animal, or depriving him of life, hoping thus 
to terrify others from a like course, was deemed an unwise ex- 
pedient. 



PUBLIC IXSTITUTIOXS. 141 

The same incentive t© a worthy life and honorahle service 
stimiihited the imprisoned, as well as the free. 

The prisoner was given credit for his labor, skill, and pro- 
ductions. After pa^dng his expense to Government and those 
whom he wronged, he was credited with the balance, if any, 
wliich was paid over to him at his discharge. He then removed 
to a new district and his past record blotted out. 

The result of such a humane and wise course of prison treat- 
ment, generally liad tlie desired effect of awakening the indi- 
vidual to a just sense of his relations in life, and taught him 
I10W to curb his lower instincts. The products of prison labor 
no longer affected ])rivate trade, as was the complaint under the 
old system of government. Prison products went to enrich the 
results of public effort and profited all. 

We have written concerning reform and prison systems car- 
ried on during the early history of Tlie Xew Government. 

The Industrial Peform Schools gradually lessened the duties 
of the (^riminal Courts, and depopulated the ])risons. 

The work of these schools was in turn anticipated by the Pub- 
lic Training Schools and the Reform Educational systems. 

After nearly half a century of progress, there are few prisons 
and a comparatively small number of criminals. 

Public opinion and social requisites are the great regulators of 
l)rivate and juiblic life. 



IXSAXE ASYLUMS. 

It would be su]ierfluous to dilate upon the results of social 
and menial life under The Xew Government, relative to in- 
sanity. 

Destroy the cause and the well-known results disappear, is an 
axiom. 



142 THE STOEY OF THIl ]Sn':W CxOVERNMENT. 

The new order of life removed a vast train of causes, and the 
inmates of insane asylnms rapidly decreased. 

The thorough course and natural methods of education 
strengthened and balanced the individual, physically and ment- 
ally. 

The provision of employment and remuneration for all, pre- 
vented pecuniary embarrassment and consequent mental de- 
pressions, leading not only to insanity, but suicide. 

By the Government acting as a great corporation, all dis- 
tracting care, worry and ceaseless activity resulting from com- 
petition was unknown. 

The noise and confusion of city life that was so familiar in 
the past, wearing and shocking the nervous system, was, in a 
great degree, done away with. Cobble stones were removed and 
replaced by smooth pavements, where practicable, whistling 
locomotives, clamorous ringing of bells, the distressful rumbling, 
bumping and grinding of street cars, and many other evils of 
public service then in vogue were replaced by better accommo- 
dations and new methods. 

There were many diversions, recreations and means of social 
intercourse, which diverted the mind from self and expanded 
it by contact with other minds. 

The New Government did away with the solitary life of the 
herder, which was such a fruitful source of insanity on the 
Pacific Coast. The careful supervisional care in early training 
prevented much of the solitary vices of the past, which drove 
so many to the insane asylum. 

The independency of the female sex made them no longer 
the victims of unprincipled men, and unbalanced their minds 
by pseudo-love attachments: but they in turn, by their very in- 
dependency, became the regulators of social life, elevated men 



PUBLIC IXSTITUTTOXS. 143 

to more stability of cliaracter, honor and true manhood, which 
was the great province of woman. 

A nniversal knowledge of ph^'siology, and ready access to the 
best of medical skill, prevented or cut short diseases which other- 
wise ati'ect the mind. 

(xambling, a national vice in former times, no longer exerted 
its pernicious influence over mind and body, driving its over- 
wrought victims to insanity and death. 

Tlie manner in which Tbe Xew Government dealt with the 
manufacture and sale of spirituous liquors, together with edu- 
cation, social customs and Government requirements, produced 
most astonishing results. The consumption decreased remark- 
al)ly, especially of new or immature liquors. The Government 
])rescribed a standard of age and quality of all liquors. This 
destroyed the sale and use of the vile stuff, that before poisoned 
tbe 1)rain and drove multitudes into insanity and drunkards' 
graves. 

But above all, the wise marriage laws gave to generations to 
come an inheritance priceless. 

Tlie ])o]icy of the Government in following any given line 
of operation in observance of natural order, anticipated possi- 
l)le conditions, and ])revented undesirable conditions by wise 
])r()visions. 

The principle that ^^an ounce of prevention is worth a pound 
of cure'* characterized the actions of The Xew Government. 
This was seen in the de])letion of the vast progeny of the debased, 
criminals, insane and drunkards. But the Government had to 
deal with society and institutions as it found them. 

The Old Government and society were helplessly bewildered 
in trying to take care of their otfs]:)ring. The Xew Government 
came to the relief, and instituted reform, and curative svstems 



144 THE STOEY OF THE XEW GOVERNMENT. 

as we have outlined. Measures employed in treating the crimi- 
nal were also used, to a certain extent, in dealing with the in- 
sane; but here was found a rare field for the objective psycholo- 
gist. Experimental psychology had ample scope with patholo- 
gy, hand in hand, to restore the equilibrium of mind and soul. 
The operation of psychic force, in the restoration of mind to 
normal condition, opened a new domain for science in the up- 
ward march of progress, and revealed greater possibilities of 
achievement in unexplored regions of human destiny. 



HOSPITAL, OKPHANAGES, BLIND ASYLUMS, ETC. 

All had their places and were provided for. Where wise sys- 
tems of management prevailed, showing valuable results, as was 
the case in many of the above mentioned institutions. The New 
Government was slow to interfere or alter. 

The training and results in Blind, Deaf and Dumb Asylums 
were wonderful, even under the old regime, but greater facili- 
ties and new discoveries made greater results possible under the 
new order. 

Hospitals were no longer lacking in any of the appliances of 
modern inventive skill in energy or medicine. 

Orphanages had the Government's special care. They were 
many and well provided for. They were delightful homes for 
the young. 

The training and results were ideal, compatible with the cir- 
cumstances. 

So advantageous was this system of training and caring for 
the young, that it became the general practice for parents to 
have their children reared in these homes. 



PUBLIC IXSTITUTIOXS. 145 

The difference between these institutions and the Prepara- 
tory Training Schools was, that in these homes the children 
lived entirely, the parents and children, of course, seeing each 
other frequently, while in the Training Schools the child spent 
but a few hours dailv. 



PESCFE HOMES. 

The Xew Government early began a work of providing Homes 
of j^^efuge for strangers, and women who had been unfortunate 
in life, as well as those who were heartiy sick of their career. 

The Headquarters, or receiving home, was removed from the 
icsidonce, the character of which was kept from the public. In 
the residences there were no set religious rules to which the 
inmates had to conform. The surroundings and regime were 
of a cJiaracter described in the TJeform Schools. Every induce- 
ment foi a pure, true and worthy life was offered. The help- 
less girls were taught useful trades and arts. The mind was 
diverted from old follies and habits. They were taught to be- 
lieve, and know that it was possible for them yet to be honor- 
able imd estimable. Duties, study, change and delightful associ- 
ation occupied the attention, until mind and soul re-asserted 
their control. 

With an education, trade, a new purpose and a new name, in 
another part of the world, they began life again, and found hap- 
] iness once more. 



146 THE STOItY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT. 
CHAPTEE XI. 

ELECTION METHODS. 

Manner of Elections — Voting at Home— Woman Suffrage — Votes are 
Traced Until Election Returns — Disapproval Marks — Disgrace by 
Public Condemnation — Absolute Merit of Ofiiceliolder x>ecessary — State 
and National Districts. 



The manner of elections is somewhat noveL It originated 
with The New Government. The election consists of a Primar}' 
and Principal, in both of which the citizens take part. The 
Central Committee announces the Primary election through the 
official paper, prepares the blank ballots, the election laws, and 
instructions for voting. The territory of the citizens is divided 
into districts under charge of election officials, with deputies, 
deliverers and collectors. 

A number of ballots, each one numbered, corresponding to the 
exact number of voters in each district, is signed by the President 
of Elections, inclosed with two corresponding tickets, return 
envelope with a copy of the election laws, and instructions in an 
envelope, and sealed with the election seal. 

These ballots are delivered to the district posts, the exact 
number receipted for, and in turn addressed and delivered at 
the voter's residence, and a receipt taken or ballot returned un- 
broken on collection the following day, viz.: election day. 

The voter fills out the blanks with names of persons for re- 
spective offices, according to his choice, following his printed 
instructions. The ballots are then re-inclosed in the envelope 
which accompanies the blank ballot, which have the PrCvsident's 
stamp on them already addressed, and handed with his receipt 
to the collector. These are turned in to the posts and immedi- 



PUBLIC IXSTITUTIOXS. 147 

ately sent to the Central Election Committee. 

Each district officer of elections, in turn, receives his receipt 
for exact number turned in, ^and he receives and gives receipts 
to the deliverers and collectors. All these receipts are turned in 
to the Clerk of Elections. 

All voters are cautioned to report any error or complaint. The 
numl)er of the ballot is known only to the voter. 

In the official report of elections, the candidate's name and 
the number of tlie ballot, as well as the number of votes, are 
given, so there can be no error. The three receiving the great- 
est num1)er of votes for any one office are chosen as the principals 
in tbe final election. 

The final election is conducted in the same manner as the 
primary. The result is, perfect quiet and order at all election 
times, tbe jieople voting at their bomes, both male and female. 
Every voter has abundant opportunity of learning of the merits 
and demerits of all candidates, by their previous record in public 
service. 

There is no canvassing, any more than a general expression 
of opinion that this person or that person would do good service 
in a certain ])osition. There is no stump speech-making in favor 
of one as against anotber. No candidate is heard sounding his 
own praises or affirming what he would, or would not do, if 
elected to a particular office. In fact no one knows who are 
the ]u-incipals in an election, until the ])rimary returns, but one 
week before the final. 

There is just one ])arty in all ])olitical matters, and that party 
is the people. 

All the difficulty attendant upon the question of woman suf- 
frage was disposed of by the principle of Equality of Rights, aiul 
the freedom of will. An individual can do or not do, be or not 



148 THE STORY OF THE XEW GOVERNMENT. 

be, according to will^ so long as the free exercise of that will 
does not interfere with the rio^hts of a fellow^ citizen. 

The practice of voting at home simplifies elections; enables 
women to exercise their rights without public annoj^ance, and 
dispenses with congregations at the polls, and public debating, 
as was the custom in the old method of elections. 

Such is the character of the election system, that one individ- 
ual acts as a check upon another, without any intent to perpetrate 
or discover fraud. 

So thorough and accurate is the machinery and results, that 
any voter reading the numbers in the returns, knows if an error 
has been made, and then it rests with him to correct that error. 
This is made possible without trouble, by the fact that accom- 
panying each prepared ticket are two corresponding tickets made 
out by the voter, one of which is sealed in a separate envelope 
and returned with the original, which is not to be opened, unless 
in cases of the above question. The other one is retained by the 
voter for reference. 

Those occupying high positions, if defeated in elections, take, 
by priority of registration and qualification, the highest or first 
position vacant in any given department, according to fitness or 
choice, unless such -is made impossible by the marks of dis- 
approval on election ballots. 

Thus it will be seen that the source of present contentions 
and life of parties, intrigue, favoritism, and desperate struggle 
to retain positions and dishonest practices of officials, is de- 
stroyed. The persons holding positions of trust are stimulated 
to their utmost to obtain and retain the confidence of the citi- 
zens, inasmuch as that confidence and support is secured only by 
personal merit and faithfulness of service. Again, it will be 
seen that position, according to fitness, is provided for all, and 



PUBLIC IXSTITUTIOXS. 149 

if a person once occupying high position, is b}' any means re- 
quired to take a lower order of phice, he may and does gravitate 
in a short time to a i)ost where he can be of the best service to 
tlie (jovernment. On the other hand, if an individual, by any mis- 
take, finds himself exalted to a position which he is incapable of 
filling, he may rest assured that he also will gravitate to his true 
s])here. 

Thejuarks of disapproval al hided to, are affixed opposite the 
name of any one occupying office at time of election, by the 
^'oter, as the names of all present incumbents are printed on the 
ballots. When a certain number of these disapprovals is reached, 
according to the laws and regulations, the holder of office who 
thus falls under the condemnation of the ])ublic, is not only de- 
feated in the nominations, but is disgraced and cannot again 
hold an im})ortant post until the time as provided by the laws 
and regulations has ex])ired. Thus it will be seen, that the people 
at all tiuies hold the (lovernment in their own hands. It will 
also be apparent that he or she who represents the interests of 
the ])eop]e, or manages in the affairs of the public, must attain 
to a degree of personal worth and ])ossess qualifications for such 
position, as well as sustain their reputation by constant effort 
and uierit. 

In local or munici])al elections the Manager is nominated and 
elected from amoug the Secretaries serving at time of election. 

The Secretaries and other officers are elected from among the 
Superintendents and Managers of the respective departments. 

In State elections, the (lovernor is elected from the local 
managers -who have been nouiinatedfor the office from the State 
Districts. 

.Ml the Departmental representatives are -elected in the same 
luanner. 

Xational elections are conducted as the State elections, a gTOU]i 
of States constitutino- a Xational District. 



ISO THE STOEY OF THIl JS' I'^W GOVERNMENT. 

These States^ as well as Local Centres, are not necessarily 
geographicall}^ united, bnt are grouped into Districts rather, 
because of their diversity of interests, which makes one group 
similar to anoth'er in character. SiO that a State or Kaitional 
Representative or Head, representing or managing the interests 
of a District, would he in touch with the State or National in- 
terests. 

It will he observed that the evils resulting from the old sys- 
tem of nominating by representation at County, State and Na- 
tional Conventions, is prevented. Under the old regime, re- 
formers declared, "the hope of purity and reform in politics lay 
in the wise choice of the people in primaries." Under the new 
regime, the people nominate their representatives, as well as 
elect them, not only in local or municipal affairs but in State 
and National, from the low^est official to the Supreme Head. 

State elections are held every two years. 

National elections are held every four years. 

At the time of the District nominations or primaries, special 
editions of the Government paper are issued, in which a brief 
account of the service of the persons who are eligible to higher 
office is given. The number of these so eligible, is determined 
by the laws and regulations governing elections. These laws 
are constantly revised to meet the growing demands of Gov- 
ernment. (See Fundamental Laiw I.) 

Thus it is, there are but a limited number of candidates in the 
field for nomination for important offices, and these are always 
known to the people. As the Government grows and ages, the 
requirements are still g-reater, thus making it more difficult to 
qualify for the high offices. 

On the returns of the primary election, a second District edi- 
tion of the Government paper is issued, in which the career of 
each successful nominee is reviewed. 



makkiagp: axd divoece. .151 

As there are no private concerns or corporations, other than 
(Government, to profit by public bills or measures, the base 
lobbying, intrigue, bribery and corruption which were so notor- 
ious in former times, ceased to live, because the conditions which 
produced these evils had ceased. Xo longer was a worthy man 
heard to say, "I do not care whether I vote or not. I've lost 
all interest in politics and have no hope for better government." 

Xow every citizen, male and female, have a lively interest in 
(lovernment, not politics, for is it not their own Government, 
of themselves, for tliemselves, and by themselves? 

I'HAPTEPt XII. 



MAIUUAGE AXD DIVORCE. 

A Pons; of MnrriMfff-— The Abuse of Marriafie — The Heartless Critic 
Marriajre Kcform — Benefit of Marriage P^xamiiiatioiis and Laws — 
Divorce. 



The Xew Government would not be complete could not con- 
tain within itself, nor impart the benign influence and universal 
blessings of an ideal Government, did it not embrace within its 
provisions a marriage law and order, in harmony with its 
genius. 

Marriage — that most sacred of all unions, inseparable from 
Xature; nay, the very essence and life of Xature and universal 
being. Has it not been the theme of poets; the ravishing ideal of 
artists; the life of books; the dream of youth; the joy of middle 
life, and the blessing of old age? It has determined the destiny 
of nations; it has been the song of ages; it was the beginning of 
life; it is the end of order. Marriage pervades the universe. It 
is tlie law whicli binds too'ether. It attracts worlds. It rules 



152 THE STOKY OF THE NF.W (^OVERXME:NtT. 

in the domain of organic life. It is the door of Heaven. Its 
fruits abonnd in the celestial spheres. It is the summit of ex- 
istence. It is the inspiring hope of all. It clads itself with gar- 
ments of heant}^ Its form is ravishing to the senses. Its wooings 
are soft with the sweet tones of Heaven's voice. Its bed is pure, 
bestrewn with Heavenly roses. It beckons to mortals; it whispers 
to angels, and clasps seraphs in its embrace. It laughs in the 
eternal spheres and dwells in the bosom of the Infinite. 

For what purposes and ends has this sacred union of the sexes 
been used! The pages of history tell a woeful tale. The un- 
written volumes of life lift their silent pages for Angels' eyes to 
read the follies and vices of a race. At each setting sun. Nature 
draws her nightly curtains, and would fain conceal within its 
ample folds, the sacrilege of her most holy bed. 

Ye favored ones who dwell amidst the promises and bless- 
ings of a purer life, come back nearly half a century, as the 
night of a dying age draws on. And what do you see, inquiring 
soul? Speak softly, lest the untutored ears bring blushes to the 
cheeks of a more innocent age. 

Marriage — whose altar festooned and garlanded, sacred rites 
of long continued custom, priest in halloAved robes, blushing 
bride, and friends of many wishes, all bespeak a marriage choice 
and of origin Divine — — 

Ah! heartless critic, we heard you speak. Again, what did 
you say?". ."I said, how much money did he have?. .What was 
she worth?.. He was considered a good catch. .Now was her 
chance or never . . It was time she was married . . She always said 
she would marry a rich man, or none. .His father was very 
wealthy . . He will one day be a rich man . . Why he is worth a 
million dollars. .Did you know she married a Count. .Wasn't it 
a magnificent wedding?. .She is now My Lady. .She was a good 



.AIAKPJAGE AXU DPrOTiCE. 153 

woman, but ambitious, that's why she inarriecl him. .My dear, 
you are not really <:oing to marry that man. you can't possibly 
love hi]n. Oh. pshaw; tliere is 110 such thing: it's all imagination. 
I know it's all I can do to endure him; but I think in time I can 
learn to like him: besides, he's got plenty to keep me comfort- 
ably. .Yow ki!()\v if a man treats a wtanan well, that's every- 
thiug — .\ny woman can like a man if he's good to her. .AYell, 
they had to kee]) the jjroperty in the family. .Why did they 
marry? Oli. they couldn't lieljj themselves, they had no voice 
in the matter: the match was nicrde for them long ago. .She is 
an heiress. .She has good connections. .He married her because 
she vras ])retty. .1 was ycning when 1 got uiarried. I didn't know 
how to do auy thing. Why 1 was only 1(1 years of age. . She don't 
tl ilk of anything but getting married. .What an intelligent, re- 
fined. s])iritual woman, and what a coarse, sensual man. Hns- 
band and wife?. ."What, therefore. Clod hath joined together, 
let not mill pu: asunder.". . .Why, her husband is old enough 
to ke lier grandf ither. Do you think .-ihe loved? Oh, yes, she 
loved his gold. 

'Tis (piite natural, you know, that youth and old age 

Should fall in love, and each for other live 

Through joys and sorrows, and trying pilgrimage of life, 

1)0 und loy hopes alike, with common thought, inirposes and ends. 

Hearts and minds together knit as one. 

Li]is kissing lips, while ardent fire of passioned s(hi1 

Kindle flames of love and ecstacies untold. 

Youth vainly babbles to old age, 
Ard tells her ]3assing thoughts with blushing cheek. 
But senses, long since bennnib'd 
Respond by vacant gaze; 

Age hobbles on, with memory unstrung, and vain attempt 
Ev quickened steps, to keep apace 
Her r-apid strides and vouthfid grace . . . 



154 THE STORY OF THE ^S'EV/ GOA^ERNMENT. 

Why that's heu fourth husband, indeed, are the rest all dead? 
Oh! dear, no. .Well, I can easily get a divorce. .She was mar- 
ried but a short time . . They could not get along together . . He 
treated her most shamefully. .Poor thing, she endured it so 
miany years. .Why did she not leave him long ago?. . Well, she 
thought it was her duty to live with him . . He has hardly drawn 
a sober breath all these years. .And yet 3^ou lived with him and 
raised children. .What could I do?. .His very presence is repuls- 
ive to me. .The marriage tie is loathsome. .Why don't you leave 
iiim?. .Society would disown me. I would be disgraced. .Poor 

Mrs. . She don't know what kind of a man he is. .Why — 

. . She must surely know what he does. .How could any 

woman be so deceived. .He trusts her implicitly.. Why, that child 
don't resemble the father a particle. .x\h, well, I guess one is 

as bad as the other . . She was seen going into the side door of 

with Mr. , time and again. .Does he know it?. .Most cer- 
tainly, and is willing that she should get money in that raan- 
nej'?.. Great Heavens! What are we coming to.. She drriiks 
like a fislt. .What! and the mother of all those children?. . VVh\, 
what can the children be like. .Wei], you can imagine, .it is 
readily seen on what plane of thought and life that man lives. . 
^0 cliildren. .Her health is so poor. .Broken down at her age? 
Well, T had nothing to provide for them. .1 know it is wrong. 
Yes, it is a great sin. .Why, I couldn't go anywhere. .Well, T 
don't ki\()W +hat it is a sin. .More sin to bring ''hildren iat) the 
world when you don't know what is going to become of them. . 
I don't want the bother. .Children are a great iiur,-:'anc? . .What a 
laroe family they have, isn't it a disgrace?. .1 hate children any- 
how. "Don't you know, I tell it to you in confidence, I positively 
hated that child . . Marriage is a farce . . Marriage is a failure . . Not 
one out of a thousand are properly mated . . '^The unborn child 



MARRTACIE Am) DIVORCK. 1S5 

fed on the blood of a heated ])nr])ose of a desperate mother's 
Ijiain", , brother — Oh! God^ that sacred name — is it a mother — 
that imbues a he]])less life, and shaj^es a character unborn, with 
iierce r-esolves, mm-derout^ thong-hts, shifting jnirposes and aban- 
doned will? — To immolate U]X)n the altar of pride, ease, pleasure, 
false honor and damnable cnstom, a iTcing pleading for an en- 
trance to the mortal sphere of untold possibilities. 

Speak, oh beings from the realms of eternal light, and from 
the regions of infernal darkness, and declare the origin of this I — - 

Stay! Stay! Oh dreadful voice unhushed. 
Declaring human crimes and follies. 
Is maiTiage, then, from Heaven sent. 
Nouglit but the grave of mortal virtues? 

The Xew Government assumed that the root of social evils lav 
in false education, ineficient education or non--edncation. 
It advocated no stern methods of reform. Its policy was to cor- 
rect evils by destro^dng the source. Ill-advised marriages and 
their thousand attendant ills could best be corrected, not by lax 
or rigorous divorce laws, but by direct education and wise mar- 
riage laws. 

In the early establishment of the Class Culture Schools, special 
]irivileges were afforded for instruction as we outlined in the 
Department of Public Teaching. (See Part II, Book 1.) 

Thus educating the unmarried and newly married of both 
sexes, to a better understanding of the duties and requirements 
of married life. 

But as this department of training formed a necessary part 
of the Public Educational System, it will be seen how intelligent 
young men and women are, at the age of maturity, upon this 
vital subject, not only informed as to the duties, requirements 



156 .THE STORY OF THE A'EW GOVEENMEKT, 

and s'erioiTsness of married life, 'hut tliey are also tliorougiilyedii' 
cated cis to choice and natural fitness of companion for years 
of domestic f elicit}^. Herein lies the secret, not only of harmony 
in married life, but of social purity, family honor, strength of 
pu'l^lic ins titutions, national greatness and ideal government. 

Thus The New Government, following natural order, in har- 
mony with natural law, sought to perpetuate itself by la3ring its 
foundation deep, and building its beiiutiful structure upon a wise 
and efficient education and purity of individual, family, social 
and national life. 

The process of early effort was gradual, and results slowly in- 
dicated. But when The New Government, as State and Na- 
tl o'n'al, had the prerogative of intitituting laws, theu the results 
of her methods of education were speedy and remarkable. The 
laws while seemingly harsh to the few, were wise and beneficent 
to the many. 

The natural law declares for the "survival of the fittest.^^ Thus 
did The New Government declare. It forbade the marriage of 
those seriously crippled, deformed and sickly; those tainted with 
insanity, vile diseases, and all diseases which, if transmitted, 
would seriously impair the life and happiness of the offspring. 

The law was made kind by a wise provision. The marriage of 
such persons was only permissable where the child-bearing period 
had passed. 

Marriage licenses were granted, only after careful examination 
of the parties concerned. Of ttimes courses of medical treatment 
had to be undergone before licenses were issued. Licenses were 
refused not only to the above mentioned class, but also to persons 
of strong criminal tendency. 

The moral sentiment, customs and laws prevented the living 
together of such persons. Did they go out of the country, 



:\iAianA(;E asd divoklk. 1 57 

inaTTV and return, they \rere amenable to ihe law and subject 
to its provi-sion-s. 

Tliese maiTiage examine ti on- aud lau-s were wonderful cor- 
rectives of common evils. To a krge degree, they destroyed the 
prolific source of heredity in crime, iusanity, consumption, de- 
formity, drnnkeness, animal propensities, ill-favored hodies, men- 
tal weakness and a thousand other physiological ills. 

Divorce was anticipatetl by fortifying against its necessitv. 

The pei-sons contemplating marriage were well informed, not 
only of the character and reputation of each other by public rec- 
ord, but also special official examinations revealed the physiologi- 
cal conditions, characteristi<?s and natural disposition. So each 
knew^ the other well; 1st, by discernment and ttnderstanding 
throitgh a long course of wise education; 2nd, by public record 
and association; 3rd, by special atithoritative examination. Not- 
withstanding all this, there is disobedience of known laws and 
there will long continue to be Just such violation, until the per- 
fection of human life. 

These conditions and human weaknesses call for wise divorce 
measures. 

On just grounds, for good and sufficient reasons, either one 
or both parties may apply for a separation, and be granted a di- 
vorce after specified terms for consideration and trial. 

Thus will it be seen. Government is balanced, when wisdom 
is manifest in the perfection of her laws, which declares perfect 
liberty to all and restrains that lihertv for the sxood of all. 



1 58 THE STGKY OF THE KEW GOYEEj^ME:KTr. 
CHAPTER XIIE 

CHAIs^GES AND PROGRESS 

I^'orty Years Ago— Gold and Silver Couliii't, the End — Forty Years of 
Progress — Changes — DiToree — Drunkenness — Prostitution — Usur>^ 
Forbidden —Newspapers — Street Car Service — ^Mail Service — Electrie 
Locomotive — TJnaerground Wiring — Cities— Sailors' Life — Overworked- 
Mother — The Assiinihition and Unification of Foreign Classes^— Woman'iJ? 
Sphere — : 



Forty years ago was a time of great trouble. On every side was 
heard the cry for help. Distress, want and avarice stalked 
through the land. 

It was the reign of gold. The gathering storm of years burst 
at last. Gold had been drained off to centers. The so-called 
Gold Bngs had manipulated the markets, bonds and laws. The 
people at last awakened to the situation, when they felt the pinch 
in the trying crisis. They needed, they looked, tbiey plead^ 
they cried for money. But money turned a deaf ear to their 
wants. The man of wealth, power and position isaid, "We are sat- 
isfied, let gold continue to reign.'' The masses cri'ed, "'Give us 
silver, for we cannot get your goM.'^ So the cry went up, all over, 
give us silver 16 to 1. The people hoped, they believed that sil- 
ver in abundance 'would bring relief. Gold was conservative and 
shrunk still closer from circulation. It feared for its future. It 
sat with closed heart to the people's needs. Silver rose up and 
cried for life and promised bread to all. Fierce and bitter was 
the fight. The armies for gold and silver fought hard and long. 
The great political powers locked horns as never before. The 
fight was ended and silver won the day. But, alas! silver could 
not supply the needs, nor change the current of human 
thought in social life. But it paved the way. 



('HAXCIKS AND PROGRESS. 159 

The crisis in national affairs made it ])ossible for the instit-iition 
of The Xew (Government. It caane. Tt grew, and its history 
is recorded. It wonJd he folly to declare that all the ills of life 
were ended, and the ideal state of society reached, even after the 
i-emarkahle growth of forty years. P>ut great and many changes 
have been brought about. 

Half a century might not revolutionize a nation's life. But 
changes intimated were begun, and indications of a marvelous 
age of progress, a century or two centuries hence, were not too 
fond a dream to indulge in, or write about. 

We cannot close this record of changes and growth without 
making re-mention of a few things. 

The current of community and national thought under The 
Xew Government changed the whole aspect of social life. Social 
life, in turn, determined community, state and national charac- 
ter. Evils which existed before as necessary evils, under the old 
system, ceased to exist under the new system, without legislating 
against them, simply because of natural adjustment of public 
sentiment. 

Divorces gi'cw fewer in numljer, since the causes were largely 
removed. 

Drunkenness became a crime against society, and an etfectual 
bar to positions of trust. The victims were treated in special 
departments provided in hospitals, reformatories, prisons and in- 
sane asylums. The offender was not confined for a night, a few 
<lays, or a week, for disturbing the peace, and then discharged 
to disturb more peace, but was looked upon as an unfortunate 
person who needed care and wise treatment. 

Prostitution diecl rapidly away. Education, discipline, inde- 
]}endency of woman, prestige of woman, family purity, decreased 
po]mlation of cities, social requirements, government require- 



i6o THE STORY OF TITIl NVAY GOVERNMENT. 

ments^ marriage laws, marriage examinations, selection in mar- 
riage, means for family support, making m.arriage possible for 
ever}^ man; the moral restraint, care and training in early years; 
the intellectual and spiritual progress universally, lessening the 
animal and sensual tendencies, elevating and refining the whole 
man, all together, combined to drive out this hydra-headed mon- 
ster of human depravity. 

Profanity, vulgarity and slang gave way before culture and re- 
finement. 

The taking of usury was forbidden, and so one powerful factor 
in developing cunning and avarice was destroyed. 

Newspaper reports were no longer exaggerated and distorted, 
expressly to gratify morbid curiosity and make revenue. In fact, 
there was little or no place for private ownership of newspapers. 
The great journals of the country, which had built for themselves 
through years of toil, widespread reputations and monumental 
homes, dwindled away, and sold their magnificent plants to The 
New Government, and their proprietors, managers, and editors 
found homes in the Department of Publication and Printing, or 
in general Government service. 

Trashy, vile and obscene literature was rapidly driven from 
market and circulation. 

Street car service became much improved. Seats were pro- 
vided for all, and cars to accommodate all, and speed, comfort and 
smoothness in travel. 

Mail service became one of the wonders of the age, if indeed 
an}' thing can be called wonderful in such a progressive period. 

Small eleotric cars confined within rails vshoot with lightning 
speed between towns, cities and states, and across the continent, 
traveling at the rate of two or three hundred miles an hour. The 
anti-friction bearings, invented some vears before, made such a 
high rate of speed possible. 



CHAXGE>S AXD PROGEESS. i6i 

The steam locomotive gradually gave way to the electric loco- 
motive. High raites of speed, on smooth, double road-beds were 
attained, and the traveler saved much weariness and time, both 
in local and transcontinental travel. 

The unsightly and dangerous electric lighting wires, as well 
as telegraph and telephone wires, were laid underground. 

The ra])id growth of towns lessened the population of large 
cities. 

AVhat The Xew Government did for t1ie dweller on land, it also 
(lid for the sailor, as far as practicable. Society did not spurn 
him because of his vocation, but looked ii])on and treated him 
as a necessary and honorable factor in common life. It sought 
to ju'ovide for him all the comforts and privileges of home and so- 
cial life when on land, and continued its fostering care over him 
while aboard. 

The ])oor overworked woman and mother, in 10,000 homes, 
country and town, toiling as a white slave for family and home, 
lias at last been al)le to lay down her instruments of toil, to rest 
;md breathe, enjoy herself and live as a free-born soul, to mingle 
with her labors, recreation, plans, new scenes and pleasures, and 
so drive away the cankering cares of life, which shrivel mind and 
body, and hasten to premature graves. 

The requirements for citizenshi]:), and restricted immigration, 
made it possible for the Government to slowlv and steadily assim- 
ilate its cosmopolitan people. 

The wide differences of classes was bridged over, which made 
the interests of all, in common. This universality of common 
interest in common institutions broke up and destroyed predilec- 
tion of nationalities. Those who were once foreigners parted 
witli their native customs, national days and prejudices. All 
were citizens of a benio'n Government, and sat harmoniouslv to- 



1 62 THE STORY OF THE XEW GOYEKNMEXT. 

gether, beneath the one flag. Not the old flag of battle which 
ever stirred np national and war sentiment, bttt the white flag of 
peace, prosperity and progress. The nationality characteristic 
gradnally wore away. A common edtication and teaching made 
marriage and intermarriage possible, and a nation, once a nation 
of many peoples, is fast becoming a nation of one people, of one 
education, of one faith, with one God. 

Woman, "the noblest work of God," under the reign of The 
New Government, in an age of widespread and spreading educa- 
tion, culture and refinement, came into her Divine inheritance, 
and could only attain to it in such an age. She is fast reaching 
the zenith of her glory and power. It is her's, not only to have 
equal rights with men, but to select her man; to conceive at will 
the highest type of man; to nurse the child with the pure milk 
of a true mother; to cradle the child in the lap of Heaven's luxur- 
ies amidst the joys of a haiDpy home; to surround the child with 
moral environments; to have the child trained with all the skill 
and wisdom ^that combined intellect, genius and spiritual en- 
hghtenment can concentrate; to lead the child into manhood with 
the guidings of mature motherhood; to follow the man in all his 
ways through life with the fond and hallowed recollections of 
Heaven's precious gift, a noble mother; to hover over him still, 
in angelic spheres of light and lend him inspiration for every per- 
fect way. 

Woman has thrown much away and is still divesting herself of 
the follies and absurdities which naturally characterized her ap- 
proach to her domain of power and position. She has taken her 
seat, sways the sceptre of Divine influence and dwells enthroned, 
the Queen of Earth. 



THE WHITTEX STOHY. 163 

CHAPTEI? XIY. 



THE WRITTEX .STOKV, 

And now, I ha\x^ written — tli-e angel hatli not left mv side; 
The ])en did feel the quiverings of Heaven's impulse; 

Thoughts on fleet wing were borne; and mem'rv did descrv the 

things of life; 
The keepers of the stoi'es of thought long since treasured up, 

poured them at my feet; 
I stooped, the gems to pick, and struug the crystals to hedeck- 

the forms of truth, of love tmd honor. 
To weave their garments widei% I fain would toil; but wisdom 

speaks — 
That which is best said, is quickly said, and to the point; nor 

amplify your words, uor lengthen out the tale; 
Eor busy lives hath not time, the dizzy heio-jns of thought to 

;sGate. 
AVhat I have seen, what I have known. T have in faithfulness 

well shown. 
Not on fancy's giddy height, I sought to prove the right: 
IXor with vain allusion well content, to satisfy your minds, on 

hope, and help, and comfort bent. 
In natural order from the outset, I did tread. 
AVith argimient and reason and logic have I led 
The reader, who with me did seek to know 
The reasons for oin- common weal and woe. 
If you who have this story read. 
Do not clearly see its parts and end, 
■^Tis because too much haste you've made. 
Eetrace your stejis. and in the search, careful thought and rea- 
son lend. 



[64 THE STOEY OF THE .VEW GOVERA^HEKT. 
CHAPTER XY. 



THE EYES IN a AND THE MOROTHG OF LIFEl 



Eiglity years Iiave eonie and gone. 
In the morning of life they seemed so long. 
Oh, what purposes, hopes and fears, • 

What nps and downs, sorrows, sighs and tear& 
But now they're past — all past — ' 

In the evening of lilc-, I sit and w^J't, 
But yesterday, it seems, 'twas mom^ 

And now, 'tis night — the night of age — the night of death — 
ISTo, not night, hnt shades of even' ere the morning. 
The form is aged, ripe and full. 
Ready, with the gentle toiich of morning's breathy 
To close its eyes in solemn death. 
But soul, with purposes undimmed, 
And growing strength with waning years. 
Doth calmly wait the morning's kiss, 
To part with death and mortal fears. 
An old man — so say they who loot upo-ii the shell 
.And see not the soul, passive, waiting for its biith. 
The shadows fall, softly fall, as morning dew from heaven to 
earth ; 

But every falling shade glows with mellow lights 

.\nd weaves a halo 'round the soul, so hrioiht. 

The air grows chill to earthly senses, ebbing fast. 

Is this what's called grim death, so dreadful in the past? 

I see thee not; I feel thee not; thou hast no life nor form. 

Thou'rt not a thing, and only in mortals' minds was't born. 

I know it now, I mark it well, 'tis the Vending of the spheres; 

The day of night, earthly night, draws to its silent close. 
The lighf of day, celestial day, to spirit gaze appears. 
While mortal form its tale of vears now told, 

Betakes itself to timelv, and well earned repose. 



THE EVEXIXG AND THE rilOI^XTXC OF LIFE. 1 65 

I linger but a moment here. 

Ere 1 respond to whispering voices, now so near. 

And ste]) to vender shore, for h)ng to me so dear. 

I hear a stepr— she comes, 'tis the morning of mortal life, 
My little cliild, the old man's "heart's deJiglit.'" 

She climbs upon mj knee as \\'ont— 

Our hearts so close, have been entwined, 
As to the summit of earthly life I climbed. 
The evening and the morning, side by side, 
In Heaven's fair bowers have oft reclined. 

.\nd now, the tears of joy at parting, and sight of brightest 

morning 
vSteal quickly down this ^^'itllered cheek; 
The child, with arms around my neck so tightly pressing, 
Asks, with troubled tears, her face half-hidden on my breast^ 
"XIrandpa, dear, why do vou weep?'' 

"'Uy darling child, my work is o'er; 

I tried to do it well; 

In faithfulnes-s to all, a humble part I tilled; 

And shirked not duty, nor the right. 

Lest shame might live to tell. 

These tears, dear one, are tears of joy, not sadness, 

For sorrow finds no place within my heart, 
As to our home, these spirit steps draw near witli o-lndness; 

So dry your eyes, fond child of love. 
And lie thee quietlv here, 

While still I add a line ■■ 

May angels, o'er thy ways, keep constant watch. 

And guard thy steps, most innocent, through life Divine. 



Principles in bygone years set forth. 
Before mv mind do come ■ — 



i66 THE STOKY OF THE NEW GOYERKMEKT, 

Unity of man^ justice^ love and rights of all, ( 

Make happiness and harmony within the souL i 

The perfect man, to life's bright summit climbs,, r 

And ends his efforts well; 
But for the prize, the price he surely find&. 

Eternal vigilance- — 'Tis this must tell. 

Ihough strong and great in wisdom's ways. 
With innocence and child-like faith, he lays' 

His hand within the Father's tender cilasp. 
And reaches out, and on, and up, the Deity Infi]]ite,> 

With yearnings still, in thought to grasp. 

The mantle, now, I gather, and make my exit, well content. 

Since these eyes have seen a government 

Among men, on earth set up, sublime. 

Akin to that of Heaven, with righteousness benign. 

Hark! Softly they are calling, wooing me away 

Yes, I hear your voices — Now, I see your forms and faces, 
(Tothed with Heaven's beauteous graces 



The cords do loosen, fast; nor would 1 sta}^- 

Adieu, scenes of earth — - — mortal — - — ■ — 
Ah! I cannot see the pen 



Do I write? I feel no touch Is this death? 

Nay, 'tis life — — glad morning farewell fare — 

They found them there a little later, the old man and the 
child, while the shadows were deepening within the room. The 
pale light of the new moon shone through the uncurtained 
window, and fell upon the two sleeping forms, enveloping them 
with a slivery halo. The stiffening fingers still clasped the 
]oen, Avhere it had ceased to move, after faintly tracing the brok- 
en word. The eves were open, fixed, as in ascending gaze, but 



IMiE KVENIXG AXD THE :\I0KX1X(J OF LIFE. 167 

their brightness had gone; they were glassy. The face was cast 
in a smile, as if some most welcome message had been received. 
The deep lines and wrinkles seemed to be pressed out and the 
face looked fr'^sh and young as in childhood. The child's arms 
were clasped around his neck; her soft cheek lay against his; 
her head rested on his shoulder; the golden curls mingled with 
the silvery locks. They were one — one in life, and one at 
parting. The bridge of years was swept away. Age and ex- 
jierience and years had crowned that head with wisdom. Sorrow, 
wisdom and love had made the heart tender, humble and in- 
nocent as the little child's. The old man and the child had 
dwelt together in heaven; nothing could separate them. 

In the silent, clustering shadows, the angels hovered and 
gazed upon the rare picture. 

Gently they unclasped the sleepers' arms and bore her away. 
Tenderly, loving hands laid the form of the old man to rest. 




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